On November 14, 2026, Russian Ambassador to the Czech Republic A.V. Ponomareva, together with the head of the Russian house in Prague I.V. Girenko, participated in a memorial event in the village. Groznatyn, where the hero of the Soviet Union, the commander of the first corps of the Czechoslovak army, the seventh president and three times hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Ludvik Svoboda was born.
On the occasion of the upcoming 131st anniversary of the birth of L. Svoboda, the ambassador laid a wreath at the monument in his home and gave a welcome speech to the activists gathered in local patriotic and veteran organizations.