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Kyiv, August 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Due to improvement of weather conditions in most of Ukraine, the Defense Ministry has decided to allow celebratory firework displays to be set off in nine Ukrainian cities.

The press service of Kyiv City State Administration informed that, according to a corresponding decree of Ukrainian defense minister, fireworks would be set off in Kyiv, Sevastopol, Odesa, Kerch, Vinnytsia, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Rivne and Dnipropetrovsk to mark the Independence Day of Ukraine on August 24, 2010, at 2200.