Independence Day of Ukraine
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Independence Day of Ukraine is a state holiday in Ukraine, celebrated on 24 August in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence of 1991.
2013 celebration in Luhansk, the last before the war in Donbas started in 2014.
Ukrainian Independence Day celebrations in Toronto, Canada in 2017
The March of Defenders during independence day 2019, featuring the UPA battle flag.
Protestors against the arrests in December 2019 of Donbas veterans suspected of killing journalist Pavel Sheremet during the 2020 March of Defenders
The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR on 24 August 1991.
Independence Day of Ukraine
…День Незалежності України, romanized: Den' Nezalezhnosti Ukrainy, IPA: ) is a state holiday in Ukraine, celebrated on 24 August in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence of 1991. When Ukraine was still a Soviet republic, the Ukrainian diaspora traditionally recognized 22 January (the Declaration of Independence of the…
Typewritten version of the act
People celebrate the declaration near the Verkhovna Rada building (24 August 1991)
The front page of the parliamentary newspaper Holos Ukrayiny with the text of the declaration printed on the lower half (27 August 1991)