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Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and Soldiers to be remembered in Ukraine on Reunion Day

21.01.2015, 10:09
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On January 22, the Reunion Day, the action "Eternal and united Ukraine" will take place in Kyiv, marking the beginning of the All-Ukraine memorial month.

Celebration of modern heroes will start at 18.00 on the capital's Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square, as reported by Natsiya.infoon their Facebook page.

It is planned to light candles at the event, made in the form of a huge Tridentof Dignity.

Then the participants plan to march toLobanovskyyStadium, where they will commemorate the first victims of Maidan, the Heaven’s Hundred heroes and victims of the war in Donbas.

"Everyone who wishes can write his name on the ribbon of eternity and tie it to an iron memorial Trident that will be installed at Lobanovskyy stadium,” reports SerhiyBarkar, the action coordinator and a representative of Shlyakhassociation.

The organizers stressed that the event “Eternal and united Ukraine" is of non-political character. In its course it is supposed to collect donations for the needs of Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers.

VitaliyBurchenko, the event coordinator in Kyiv noted that this event will be the beginning of similar events in the region.

“So we pass the baton to each city of Ukraine to honor the heroes of the Heaven’s Hundred and ATO,” the activist said.

It is expected that within a month, on February 23, the Memorial Trident will appear in other cities of Ukraine, as reported by Gazeta.ua.

In Lviv, on January 22 at 9.00 in Garrison church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul a memorial service for the victims of the Revolution of Dignity will beheld.

Then, at 10.00, at Lychakiv cemetery, there will bethe ceremony of laying flowers on the grave of the Hero of Ukraine and Hero of the Heaven’s HundredYuriyVerbitsky will take place. There flowers will be laid at Lviv cemetery to the memorial to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Galician Army, the chapel of the President of the National Council of ZUNR YevhenPetrushevych, to the graves of those killed during anti-terrorist operations in Eastern Ukraine and the graves of the heroes of the Revolution of Dignity.

A solemn academy will be held on the occasion of the Reunion Day at 19.00 in Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre. The immigrants from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea, as well as military personnel participating in antiterrorist operation in eastern Ukraine are invited at the academy. ThemeritedHryhoriyVeryovkaNational Academic Choir of Ukraine will perform for the participants, as reported by the press-service of Lviv Municipal Administration.