"Independence is the silence we experience when we lose our people," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared to the nation in a video posted on Telegram. "Independence descends into the shelter during an air raid, only to endure and rise again and again to tell the enemy: 'You will achieve nothing.'"
"We can celebrate this holiday thanks to our soldiers - because of them we live," said Oksana Stavnycha, who traveled to Kyiv from the central region of Vinnytsia with her 7-year-old daughter and husband. They planned to lay flowers to honor Ukraine's fallen soldiers.
"The price of our independence is very high, and every day many men give up their lives for it," Stavnycha added.
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