Petro and Maryna Poroshenko, together with participants of the Revolution of Dignity, “European Solidarity” deputies, veterans, diplomats, and civic activists, honored the memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.
“Today is a great day in the history of Ukraine. A day when Ukraine laid the best of our Heroes on the altar of its future. The first people came out in November 2013 in order not to allow Ukraine’s movement toward Europe to be stopped. But on December 1, millions of Ukrainians came out to Independence Square because the dictatorial authorities attempted to suppress the protest,” Poroshenko recalled.
“And there was a second goal — to preserve democracy, not to allow freedom and the rule of law to be strangled, not to allow Ukraine to be strangled,” the fifth president noted.
“We must do everything possible to preserve the unity of the country, because thanks to unity we held Ukraine in 2014, defended Ukraine and Kyiv in 2022. The threats are no smaller now. We must preserve Ukraine. We must support the Armed Forces of Ukraine — our combat warriors, soldiers, officers, and generals,” Petro Poroshenko said.
“I thank everyone who is here today. I thank everyone who stood on the Maidan in 2013–2014, who were here with shields, when we carried out the wounded, when from the Officers’ House on February 18 through the Maidan on the 20th we sadly said goodbye to our Heroes. We must do everything possible so that what such great sacrifices were made for was not in vain,” Poroshenko emphasized.
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