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The sunflower was chosen as the symbol of this day as the personification of grief for the fallen defenders of Ukraine
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Ukraine honors the memory of those who gave their lives for its independence and territorial integrity.
On Sunday, the State Flags of Ukraine will be lowered throughout the country at the administrative buildings of state authorities, foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine, state enterprises, institutions and organizations, in military units and on ships. And at 10.00 a nationwide minute of silence will be announced. About this on Saturday, August 28, according to the message of the General Staff of the ZSU on page в Facebook.
The event will take place within the framework of the Day of Remembrance of the defenders of Ukraine who died in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
This date was not chosen by chance – it was on August 29, 2014 that the largest number of Ukrainian soldiers died during the war in the Ilovaisk boiler in Donbas.
The sunflower was chosen as the symbol of this day as the personification of grief for the fallen defenders of Ukraine.
“The green corridor, deadly for our defenders, ran through fields with sunflowers. It was under them that hundreds of Ukrainians laid their lives on the altar of freedom in the fight against the enemy, died in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Therefore, the symbol of the Day of Remembrance of the defenders of Ukraine has become sunflower flower, “the message says.
Recall that during the shelling of Avdeevka there was eight soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were wounded… The Ukrainian side in the TCG believes that the enemy’s goal was to provoke the Armed Forces of Ukraine to respond in order to create tension and disrupt the talks in Washington between Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Recall that because of the shelling, the workers of the Avdeevka railway station and the passengers were evacuated to shelters… Later became known the consequences of the shelling of Avdiivka.
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