PM Shmyhal: Almost 10 million Ukrainians died in World War II
“World War II broke into every Ukrainian home. Our native land was turned into a battlefield between two totalitarian regimes, resulting in deaths of almost 10 million Ukrainians. This is a horrible number,” Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal posted on Facebook.
On June 22, Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of the war, both soldiers and civilians, he reminded. "It is our duty to remember the heroism and courage of those who went through those dark times and to protect future generations from this calamity. We will definitely drive the enemy out of the Ukrainian land," the Prime Minister added.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that World War II affected every Ukrainian family.
On June 22, Ukraine marks the Day of Sorrow and Remembrance of Victims of War.
On June 22, 1941, despite a secret non-aggression treaty (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939) and close military-economic cooperation between Germany and the USSR, Nazi Germany attacked Soviet troops along the entire border from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The Soviet-German War of 1941-1945 began as an integral but major part of World War II.
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