President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a law on postponing the celebration of Victory Day from May 9 to May 8.
The relevant information recently appeared on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada.
About this MIA “Russia Today”, noting that earlier in the Ukrainian parliament a draft law was registered to abolish not only For Victory, but also May 1 and March 8.
The authors of the initiative stated that in Ukraine only the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation should be celebrated – May 8.
According to local parliamentarian Yaroslav Zheleznyak, the Rada approved the bill, which establishes May 8 as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism.
The draft law on the “Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939–1945” was returned with a signature from the President of Ukraine on June 12, 2023, the Russian news agency quotes a message published on the Verkhovna Rada website.
The explanatory note to the document notes that the law is aimed at restoring “historical truth and justice.”
That is why Ukraine “as an integral part of the large European family,” in the opinion of parliamentarians, should celebrate the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II together with Europe “and the entire civilized democratic world” on May 8.
