Ukraine adopts May 8 and poppy to remember WWII victims
- 9 years ago
Ukraine is changing the way it commemorates World War II, as euronews correspondent Maria Korenyuk reports from Kyiv.
“For the first time in Ukraine’s history, May 8 has become the Day of Remembrance for World War II victims. According to historians, during those years Ukraine lost about 5 million soldiers and 4 million civilians,” she said.
War in Ukraine is very much part of the present, not just the past.
This year the country is adopting the poppy to remember the victims of World War II.
Using red tissue, and with scissors and needles in their hands, a group of women are busy at work sewing them. Poppies were initially adopted as remembrance symbols by the United States and then by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to commemorate the soldiers killed in World War I.
“We’re becoming part of Europe, and they widely use this symbol. How I wish everything was fine right now, how I wish there was no war in Donetsk, in Luhansk,” said one woman in Kyiv, emot
“For the first time in Ukraine’s history, May 8 has become the Day of Remembrance for World War II victims. According to historians, during those years Ukraine lost about 5 million soldiers and 4 million civilians,” she said.
War in Ukraine is very much part of the present, not just the past.
This year the country is adopting the poppy to remember the victims of World War II.
Using red tissue, and with scissors and needles in their hands, a group of women are busy at work sewing them. Poppies were initially adopted as remembrance symbols by the United States and then by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to commemorate the soldiers killed in World War I.
“We’re becoming part of Europe, and they widely use this symbol. How I wish everything was fine right now, how I wish there was no war in Donetsk, in Luhansk,” said one woman in Kyiv, emot