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29
November
2021

President, First Lady honor memory of Holodomor victims in Ukraine – press service

KYIV. Nov 29 (Interfax-Ukraine) – On Holodomor Remembrance Day, President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska took part in an event to honor the memory of the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine, which took place at the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide.

The presidential couple put symbolic compositions of spikelets at the sculpture "Bitter Memory of Childhood".

The memory of the victims of the Holodomor was also honored by Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.

A nationwide moment of silence was declared, after which the all-Ukrainian action "Light a Candle" began.

The children present at the ceremony handed over the lighted icon lamps to the Head of State and the First Lady, which Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky installed on the Alley of Black Boards.