“The losses of the Ukrainian people were among the greatest in World War II. And the contribution of Ukrainians to the defeat of Nazism was also among the greatest. Millions of Ukrainians, serving in different armies of the Anti-Hitler coalition, fought against Nazism. Millions of Ukrainians were among the victors, doing everything possible to ensure that total evil would lose.

Unfortunately, 81 years later, we are once again forced to stop evil — also total evil — that brings nothing but destruction and abuse, and that is built on a similar ideology of hatred. An updated version of Nazism marked: ‘made in Russia,’”

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II.