February 22, 2015 The March of Dignity
attended by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and distinguished foreign
guests who came to Ukraine in order to participate in the events on the
occasion of the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity was held in Kyiv. Together
with President Petro Poroshenko, Chairman of Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman
and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the March was headed by President of
Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, Poland - Bronislaw Komorowski, Germany - Joachim
Gauck, Moldova - Nicolae Timofti, Georgia - Giorgi Margvelashvili, Slovakia -
Andrej Kiska, as well as President of the European Council Donald Tusk.
Thousands
of Ukrainians, clergy, representatives of Polish, Georgian, German and French
communities also participated in the event. Members of the column were holding
a large yellow-blue flag. People came with flags of Ukraine, EU, Georgia,
Poland, Lithuania. From time to time people shouted "Glory to Ukraine -
glory to heroes!", "Ukraine is Europe!", "Ukraine, freedom,
dignity, victory!". People were singing the Anthem of Ukraine. Also, the
record of the Anthem of Europe, "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven, sounded. The
procession ended up with the Prayer for peace on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The
President and the distinguished foreign guests have laid icon-lamps under the
Independence Stele.
President Petro Poroshenko and the
heads of foreign states and governments who take part in the events on the
occasion of the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity have visited the
exhibition "Presence. Proofs of Russian troops' aggression on the territory
of Ukraine" opened on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv.
The Head of State has commented on a
few "exhibits", particularly MLRS "Grad" used by militants
to shell peaceful cities and villages, remnants of the missile system
"Smerch" used for the shelling of Kramatorsk, which ended up with 17
people killed and over 60 people wounded. Petro Poroshenko showed grenade
launchers, which are not produced in Ukraine, captured by Ukrainian militaries,
armored vehicles, Russian tanks, remnants of civilians' cars destroyed near
Mariupol.
The President has also demonstrated
Russian drones. The Head of State has drawn attention of the attendees to the
fact that the OSCE SMM representatives, which observe the compliance with the
ceasefire regime in Donbas, do not have an opportunity to use drones, because
militants and Russian servicemen hinder it in every possible way. However, the
Ukrainian servicemen have recorded the activity of about 120 enemy drones, as
stated by Petro Poroshenko.
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