An important day for every Ukrainian is honored in all cities of the country, as well as in many world capitals and even at the “Academic Vernadsky” polar station.
On Sunday, January 22, Ukrainians for the first time celebrated an important date – the Day of the Unification of Ukraine – in military conditions. Focus He collected all known information about how the Day of Unity is celebrated in the cities of Ukraine and the world.
Ternopil
In honor of the Unification Day of Ukraine, the townspeople stand in front of the cinema. Taras Shevchenko reproduced the contours of the map of Ukraine, in which the names of Ukrainian cities were inserted.
Also, people unfurled a hundred-meter blue and yellow flag on Proskurovskaya Street.
Uzhhorod
On January 22, in Uzhgorod, citizens brought flowers to the monuments of the poet Taras Shevchenko and statesman Avgustin Voloshin. People also sang “Oh, Luzi’s got a red snowball”.
Lutsk
Volyn region stood out with the 200-meter Ukrainian flag, which the residents of Lutsk unfurled on Theater Square. People carried a large blue and yellow flag to Zamkova Square via Lesya Ukrainka Street.
Dnieper
The city did not celebrate a national holiday today, January 22. Dnipro honored the memory of the citizens who lost their lives in the last missile attack of the RF Armed Forces. It’s been nine days since the tragedy on Pobeda Avenue this Sunday. A memorial service was held near the house destroyed by the rocket. Dnipro residents brought candles, flowers and soft toys to the tall building.
Also, the people near the flagpole carrying the Ukrainian flag organized a “chain of unity”. They were holding tablets with the names of Ukrainian cities as a symbol of the indivisibility of our country.
Kharkov
Residents of Kharkov celebrated Unity Day in front of the building of the regional state administration, which was damaged by the shelling of the RF Armed Forces. 70 citizens came to Sobornost Square. Many threw Ukrainian flags over their shoulders. People sang the Ukrainian anthem and sang folk songs.
Nikolayev
Sobornost Day in Nikolaev was celebrated with a solemn parade from the monument to Taras Shevchenko to the monument to Vyacheslav Chornovil and the laying of flowers.
Note that the monuments where the townspeople bring flowers are hidden by special structures. They must protect the monuments against missile attacks by the RF Armed Forces.
People brought Ukrainian and UPA flags to the rally.
Ukraine’s Unity Day is also celebrated by internally displaced Ukrainians in many countries of the world.
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In Prague, Ukrainian immigrants and IDPs gathered on Charles Bridge on 22 January. Hundreds of people, including children and the elderly, formed a human chain from one side of the bridge to the other. They sang the Ukrainian national anthem and Ukrainian folk songs. People also brought Ukrainian flags and handmade banners and banners supporting Ukraine.
In addition, the gathered Ukrainians demanded that the Leopard 2 tanks be delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Sweden
In Stockholm, on Ukraine’s Unification Day, hundreds of men and women, representatives of Ukrainian society in Sweden, took place. People brought national Ukrainian flags to the meeting and chanted slogans.
The rally itself was held under the general slogan “Ukraine is united against the enemy in defense of its territorial integrity”.
Andriy Plahotniuk, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Sweden, also attended the event. He addressed the protesters in a speech that he asked to continue supporting our country.
“Our strength, our resistance is in our unity and our dignity. This is what will help win this war. That’s why we are actively working together so that all our friends and partners in all countries also maintain such unity,” Plahotniuc said.
Also Sydney (Australia), Paphos (Cyprus), Aarhus (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), Dijon, Lyon, Nantes (France), Munich (Germany), Tbilisi (Georgia), London (England), Athens (Greece), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Mexico City, Chisinau (Moldova), Oslo (Norway), Krakow (Poland), Bucharest (Romania), Bratislava (Slovakia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Madrid (Spain) , Stockholm ( Sweden), Geneva (Switzerland), Abu Dhabi (UAE).
Pole station “Academic Vernadsky”
On the day of unity on January 22, all Ukrainians and polar explorers at the Arctic station “Akademik Vernadsky” took part. They formed a “chain of troops” in the snow tunnel around the station.
“In Antarctica, you are very clearly aware of how unique, beautiful and diverse Ukraine is and that we must all unite to protect and preserve it,” says Ukraine’s National Center for Antarctic Science. the action of the polar explorers.
It should be noted that the French researchers currently at the station also supported the Ukrainians in this touching action.
Recall that hundreds of sunflowers were planted in New York to support Ukraine. The organizers of the action planted as many sunflowers in the center of New York, where Ukraine has been fighting for its independence in an all-out war with the Russian Federation for days.
Focus He wrote that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also celebrates the Day of Unity of Ukrainians. In his speech, he noted that Ukraine’s Catholicism is not just a merger of two banks, it is a union of millions of people. This is the unity of all regions where everyone is for each other.
Source: Focus
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