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.