KYIV. Oct 28 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday attended a mourning ceremony for the victims of World War Two on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi troops.
The memorial ceremony was held in the Park of Eternal Glory in Kyiv, the presidential website said in a statement. Zelensky laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and honored the memory of those who fell in the war by observing a minute of silence. Verkhovna Rada Speaker Dmytro Razumkov also attended the ceremony.
October 28, 1944, when Ukraine was liberated from Nazi invaders, marked "a landmark event on the path of the anti-Hitler coalition's ultimate victory in World War Two," Zelensky wrote on Facebook on Monday.
"A whole generation of Ukrainian heroes" went through the war, and today provides the opportunity to thank them and give them a bow, Zelensky said. "Soldiers and officers, partisans and resistance fighters, members of the national liberating movement, the resistance movement, civilians, adults and children, young and elderly people - all those who selflessly fought the enemy on the war and home fronts. Their feat inspires us now, prompts modern Ukrainian defenders to worthily maintain the high level of the Ukrainian military tradition," he said.