Further cementing Ukraine's break with its Soviet past, Zelenskiy has submitted a bill to parliament to officially make May 8 a day of remembrance and victory.
Speaking to the nation on a hill overlooking Kyiv, Zelenskiy said"the old evil" had returned, this time waged by a"modern Russia" pursuing the same goal as the Nazis of"enslavement and destruction" - but that they would not succeed.
"We are returning to our state an honest history without ideological influences. It is on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis," he said in a video posted on the president's Telegram channel. Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 p.m. on May 8, 1945, which was already May 9 in Moscow. Russians call the war the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
"There are veterans there too who took part in the Great Patriotic War, and their relatives, for whom this day is and will remain sacred," he said.
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