Zelensky signs law moving Ukraine’s Victory Day to May 8

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law establishing May 8 as the country’s new Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939 — 1945.

Since 2015, Ukraine has officially celebrated the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II on May 9 and marked the Day of Memory and Reconciliation on May 8. The initiative to move Victory Day to May 8 came from President Zelensky, who noted that May 8 is a day when “the world honors the memory of everyone whose lives were taken away by the war” and that this is “pure history, with no ideological impurities.”

Last month, Zelensky issued a decree declaring May 9 Europe Day.

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