Zelenskyy: Ukraine to mark Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism on May 8

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada proposing to establish May 8 as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945 and signed a decree on celebrating Europe Day on May 9.

He said that in a video statement on May 8, Interfax Ukraine reports.

"We will never forget the contribution of the Ukrainian people to the victory over Nazism. And we will not allow to lie that the victory in that war could have taken place without the participation of any country or people," he said.

"Today I signed the corresponding decree, and every year tomorrow on May 9 we will honor our historical unity – the unity of all Europeans who destroyed Nazism and will defeat rashism. Unity bringing peace closer," he said.

"Just as then we destroyed evil together, so now we together destroy similar evil. Unfortunately, evil has returned. Although the aggressor is now different, he has the same goal – enslavement or destruction. And just as then we relied on the common strength of free peoples, so now we are fighting against evil together with the free world, together with free Europe," the president said.