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UNIAN: Ukraine celebrates Victory Day without military parade

By UNIAN.

Published May 9, 2018 at 11:31 am

Young Ukrainian cadets and schoolgirls parade during a memorial ceremony in honor of Victory Day at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II in Kyiv on May 4.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

On May 9, Ukraine marks the Day of the Victory over Nazism in World War II of 1939-1945 in a new way: without a military parade and ribbons of Saint George.

The memorable date was established by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on April 9, 2015, with the law on perpetuation of the victory over Nazism in the World War II of 1939-1945 voted for within the package of decommunisation laws.