Photo: Press Service of the President of Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the memory of those killed in the battle for Kiev
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The liberation of Kiev is a story of boundless indifference and cruelty of “great” leaders and boundless feats of great fighters who liberated the city from the Nazis, the President of Ukraine noted.
On the day of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from the Nazi occupiers, President Volodymyr Zelensky laid flowers in the memorial hall of the Monument-Museum of the Liberation of Kiev, located on the territory of the National Museum-Reserve of the Battle of Kiev in 1943 in the village of Novi Petrivtsi, Kiev region. About it informs press service of the head of state on Saturday, November 6.
“The liberation of Kiev is a story of the boundless indifference and cruelty of the ‘great’ leaders and the boundless feat of the great fighters who liberated the city from the Nazis,” Zelensky said.
He recalled that only according to official data, the losses in the battle for the Dnieper amount to 417 thousand dead. In the battles for Kiev, up to 240 thousand soldiers and officers fell. But according to the calculations of a number of historians, the total number of deaths is at least twice as high, because those mobilized through the field recruiting offices were often not taken on the military record, so as not to worsen the statistics of losses.
“Even not dressed in uniform and extremely poorly armed, hundreds of thousands of our ancestors were thrown into the battle for the liberation of Kiev. To certain death. We will never forget at what cost the capital of Ukraine was liberated from the Nazi occupiers on November 6, 1943,” Zelensky stressed …
“Eternal memory and glory to all who liberated Kiev from the Nazi invaders,” he added.
The head of state also talked with veterans of military operations in eastern Ukraine and instructed the head of the Kiev Regional State Administration Vasily Volodin to activate the creation of a Center for National-Patriotic Education on the territory of the Museum-Reserve.
Earlier, Zelensky announced the responsibility of the USSR on an equal basis with Nazi Germany for unleashing the Second World War. He made these statements during his visit to Poland.
In turn, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin condemned Zelensky for the words about the Second World War. Statements about the responsibility of the Soviet Union in unleashing the war could affect relations between Ukraine and Russia, the Russian leader warned.
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