Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has held festive meeting dedicated to 70th anniversary of Victory over Nazism in Europe, place and role of Ukrainian people in WWII

On May 8, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine held festive meeting dedicated to the 70^thanniversary of the Victory over Nazism in Europe, to the place and role of the Ukrainian people in World War Two.

The participants of the festive meeting of the Verkhovna Rada are President Petro Poroshenko, United Nations Organization Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, veterans of the WWII, Verkhovna Rada deputies, Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk and members of the Ukrainian Government, heads of central executive bodies, Presidents of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yuschenko, former Chairpersons of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Former Prime Ministers of Ukraine, the Head and members of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine and heads of higher specialized courts, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the Head of the National Bank of Ukraine, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the Kyiv city mayor, heads of churches and religious associations, representatives of foreign parliaments, diplomatic corps, non-government organizations and representatives of mass media organizations.

The festive meeting was opened by First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrii Parubii.

State Hymn of Ukraine played at the session hall of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Parubii had a brief speech.

He reminded that WWII for the Ukrainians started in March 1939, when the struggles for independence of the Carpathian Ukraine against Hitler’s allies started, and in September 1939, when Nazi planes bombarded Halychyna and Volyn regions of Ukraine, then the enemy came to our lands.

Parubii noted the Ukrainians fought against Hitler at the WWII fronts from the Atlantics to the Pacific, from Norway to Egypt in the armies of Poland, Canada, France, the United States, Britain and the Czech Republic.

President Petro Poroshenko and Honorary Head of the All-Ukrainian Association of Veterans, Hero of Ukraine, deputy of Verkhovna Rada of four convocations Ihor Yukhnovskyi also took floor at the festive meeting of the Verkhovna Rada.

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