This year’s celebration of Ukraine’s Independence Day, which on Wednesday coincided with the 31st anniversary of the nation’s vote to secede from the Soviet Union, was more solemn, with officials attending memorial services and issuing alerts that Moscow might launch missile attacks against Ukrainian cities.
The celebration and parades of past years have replaced this year’s remembrance, which takes place on Wednesday, exactly six months after Russia’s invasion of the nation started.
In an impassioned speech to commemorate the day, President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to the Russian invasion as a new Independence Day, the day on which Ukraine had to fight for its freedom rather than merely vote for it.
“At 4 a.m. on February 24, a new country appeared. Reborn, not born. A country that showed no emotion—no crying, no screaming, no fear. did not flee. never gave up. not forgotten, “Added Zelensky on Wednesday.
Added him: “Every day is a fresh opportunity to persevere. We have no right to not finish when we have endured so much. What does the war’s conclusion mean for us? Peace, as we used to say. Now we declare: Success.”
Ukrainians around the nation paid respect to those who have died in combat since the invasion’s start. Foreign leaders have also traveled to Kiev, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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