KYIV. UkraineGate . 23 . August . 2022 | Society .
National Flag Day is celebrated in Ukraine every year on August 23,
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Previously, this day was celebrated only in Kyiv on July 24. It was on this day in 1990 that the blue-yellow flag was raised over Kyiv City Hall. Ukrainians were not sure that the Declaration on State Sovereignty would be adopted, but on July 16, 1990, it happened.
In 2009, changes were made to this decree, and an annual official flag-raising ceremony was established on August 23 throughout Ukraine.
The adoption of the blue-yellow flag as the national flag took place with the proclamation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR). Then, in the history of Ukraine, there was a period of red “hammer and sickle”, and for blue and yellow they were sent to prisons.
On August 23, 1991, a group of people’s deputies brought the blue-yellow Ukrainian flag into the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada, and on September 4, it was solemnly raised over the parliament building.
Source: Ukrgate
