Zelenskyy, European leaders, parliamentarians, EU leadership, and Eurocommissioners honored the memory of fallen Ukrainian defenders

On the fourth anniversary of the start of the full-scale war by Russia against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska, together with foreign guests who arrived in Kyiv, honored the memory of fallen Ukrainian defenders.

As reported by the Office of the President, at the People’s Memorial of National Memory on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, tributes to the fallen warriors were paid by President of Finland Alexander Stubb, President of the European Council António Costa, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, and Prime Ministers: Mette Frederiksen of Denmark, Kristen Michal of Estonia, Kristrún Frostadóttir of Iceland, Evika Siliņa of Latvia, Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway, Andrej Plenković of Croatia, and Ulf Kristersson of Sweden. They were joined by representatives of the governments of the United Kingdom, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, and Croatia, the authorized representative of the President of France, as well as parliamentarians and Eurocommissioners.

Volodymyr and Olena Zelenska, along with the leaders and representatives of European states and the European Union, placed memorial lamps near the portraits of the fallen heroes and honored their memory with a minute of silence.