On May 8, a march to commemorate the defenders of Ukraine, who were killed in hostilities in Donbas, was held in Kyiv.
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A young woman adjusts poppy flowers that form a symbolic map of Ukraine in an artistic installation in Lviv, Ukraine, on May 8, 2019, the Day of Memory and Reconciliation in Ukraine. The installation commemorates the end of World War II in 1945. While Ukraine didn't abolish the Soviet tradition of celebrating May 9 as the Victory Day, it introduced the Memory Day in 2015, which celebrates reconciliation rather than battlefield victory.
