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Malek Fouda

Volodymyr Zelenskyy marks National Flag Day as Russia continues to target Ukrainian cities

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in a ceremony in Kyiv on Saturday marking Ukraine’s National Flag Day. The holiday was inaugurated in 2004 by a presidential decree from then-President Leonid Kuchma.

It commemorates the day Ukrainian deputies brought the blue and yellow flag into the Verkhovna Rada – Ukrainian parliament – as they pushed towards independence following a failed Soviet coup on 23 August, 1991. Kyiv declared its independence from the Soviet Union the following day.

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