Poroshenko to attend Unity Day celebration tomorrow

President Petro Poroshenko tomorrow will take part in the solemn event dedicated to the Day of Unity of Ukraine, the president’s press service reports.

"On Tuesday, January 22, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will take part in the solemn event on the occasion of the Day of Unity of Ukraine," reads the statement.

The celebration will begin at 10:00 on Saint Sophia Square in Kyiv.

The Day of Unity is marked in Ukraine on January 22. It commemorates the unification of eastern and western Ukraine, when the Ukrainian People’s Republic and West Ukrainian People’s Republic signed the Treaty of Unity in 1919.