Kiev decides to celebrate Victory Day on May 9 every year

Ukraine will be celebrating the Victory Day on May 9 every year, the country’s deputy prime minister Vyacheslav Kirilenko said at a government meeting.

As EAD reported earlier, President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree saying that May 8 will be a national holiday – the Day of Memory and Reconciliation. The decree also said that both on May 8 and 9 there will be events to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism in Europe, though it did not specify if this will be every-year practice.