Ukraine moves day to mark Nazi surrender in shift towards West

[Kennah]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bringing-ukraine-closer-europe-zelenskiy-marks-1945-nazi-surrender-2023-05-08/

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy moved on Monday to formalise the day that Ukraine marks the allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two as May 8, aligning it with Western nations in a repudiation of the Soviet past quickly condemned by Moscow.

Speaking to Ukrainians on a hill overlooking Kyiv, Zelenskiy said "the old evil" had returned, this time waged by a "modern Russia" pursuing the same goal as the Nazis of "enslavement and destruction" - but that it would not succeed.
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"We are returning to our state an honest history without ideological influences. It is on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis," he said in a video posted on the president's Telegram channel.

Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 p.m. on May 8, 1945, which was already May 9 in Moscow.

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Bastards! Russia should invade because, um, ah, er, nevermind.

It's entertaining that Russia was so triggered by this.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Many Ukrainians fought for Germany against USSR.