On October 28, President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko took part in a ceremony to lay flowers on
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Eternal Glory Park to mark the 61st anniversary of Ukraine’s liberation from the Fascist aggressors.
Speaker Vladimir Litvin, Prime Minister Yuri Yekhanurov, Kyiv Mayor Alexander Omelchenko, several cabinet members, people’s deputies, Ivan Gerasimov, Head of the Council of Veteran Organizations, and Igor Yukhnovsky, Head of the All-Ukrainian Veteran Organization, were present at the ceremony.
The Head of State also congratulated the nation and II World War veterans, sincerely expressing gratitude to our parents and grandparents who sacrificed their lives for the sake of our freedom. Yushchenko stressed that it was incumbent upon the state and society to care for all defenders of Ukraine and the whole European civilization.
