Residents of Kyiv on Victory Day bear flowers The Ukrainian edition of “Strana” reports that on Tuesday, May 9, Eternal Fire has gone to Victory Park.
The media also publishes photos of the flooring. They show that the Eternal Flame has many colors. There are cops in the park.
May 9 in Ukraine is held as a normal working day – in conditions martial law The implementation of the Labor Law on public holidays and public holidays has been suspended in the country.
In 2022, after the start Russian special operationsMay 9 was also a working day in Ukraine. Previously this day was a holiday by law, he remembers TASS.
Recall, on the eve of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the celebration of Europe Day in the country on May 9, and on May 8 he celebrates Memorial Day and World War II. He offered to celebrate the victory over Nazism in World War II.
In this context, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Melnyk criticized Alexei Makeev, his successor as ambassador to Germany, for refusing to lay flowers at the Soviet monument in Tiergarten on Victory Day.
“It was an unforgivable mistake to abandon the traditional wreath-laying ceremony since 2015 at the Tiergarten monument on 8 May. In addition, Makeev’s refusal to the Bundestag to erect a monument to the millions of Ukrainian victims of Nazi terror in Berlin is a slap in the face to our ancestors, ”the statement said.
The Ukrainian embassy in Germany had previously announced that it deliberately refused to place wreaths and flowers at Soviet monuments or places with Soviet symbols in Berlin in 2023.
Instead, the Ukrainian embassy decided to visit the German Neue Wahe memorial in memory of the victims of war and persecution.
When Melnyk was ambassador to Ukraine in 2014-2022, he was noted for a series of scandalous statements. He was appointed deputy foreign minister in November last year. He laid flowers in the Tiergarten park, including for the year 2022.
We add that on May 9, the crowd gathered at the memorial cemetery in Warsaw. prevented Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev will lay wreaths on the graves of the fallen Soviet soldiers. According to him, when the diplomats arrived at the emplacement, there were many protesters, “the whole street was covered with Ukrainian flags and crosses.”
In response, the police announced that the action was recorded, so law enforcement could not interfere with the actions of the crowd. No harm.
Exactly one year ago, on May 9, 2022, the Russian ambassador to Poland was attacked on Victory Day and red liquid was spilled on him. This happened during the laying of flowers on the graves of Soviet soldiers. Thereupon, the diplomat left the cemetery, accompanied by the police, without laying a wreath.