Across the country, Ukrainians looked back on a year of war with both sorrow and pride as their president vowed to push for victory over Russia.
Church bells tolled, weeping mourners embraced and blue-and-yellow national flags fluttered Friday as Ukraine marked the first anniversary of a Russian invasion that triggered a cataclysmic war but also galvanized a“We clearly understood that for each tomorrow, you need to fight,” President Volodymyr Zelensky told his compatriots in a video address commemorating the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion that triggered Europe’s largest land battle since World War II. “And we fought.
Some items on Kyiv’s weaponry wish list are materializing: Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, said Friday that the first Polish-provided Leopard battle tanks had arrived in Ukraine, but he did not provide a specific number.have failed to yield much of an advantage for either side, following a string of Ukrainian victories in the late summer and early autumn.
Ukrainians sing the national anthem before laying flowers at a cemetery in Bucha during an observance of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion on Friday. “There were so many bodies,” said the church’s bell-ringer, 87-year-old Petro Potapenko, gesturing toward what had been a sandy trench where dozens of corpses were unearthed after the Russians retreated from their attempt to seize Kyiv.
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