Zelenskyy signs law recognising 8 May as Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism
Pravda Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed the law “On the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II in 1939-1945”, which will be celebrated in Ukraine on 8 May.
Source: website of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament)
Details: An explanatory note to the law states that as a civilised, peaceful and democratic European state, Ukraine honours the memory of the heroic achievement of everyone who fought against Nazism, as well as all the victims who were affected by the war – civilians who suffered from the occupation and hostilities, Ostarbeiters, resistance fighters, children of war and others.