Ukraine: Ambassador Formosa Attends National Flag Day Celebrations

(ANSA) - ROMA, 23 AGO - Carlo Formosa, Italy’s Ambassador to Ukraine, took part in the National Flag Day celebrations in Kyiv, attended by the country’s highest-ranking officials. The anniversary commemorates August 23, 1991, when, in the aftermath of the failed “August coup” in Moscow, a group of deputies solemnly introduced the yellow-and-blue flag—a symbol of Ukrainian statehood since at least 1848—into the plenary hall of the parliament in Kyiv. The following day, that same assembly would...

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