Today Ukraine is honouring its veterans and fallen in its war against Russia.
The country’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, shared a video message alongside a statement via its official Telegram channel to mark the day.
The message read: “Tough times have made us strong. And the strong bring the times of victory closer. Step by step. Today, tomorrow, every day, every minute.
“No one should or will be able to ‘turn off’ our resilience, endurance, grit, and fortitude. Neither on a regular nor an emergency basis.
“None of them have an ‘expiration date’ an ‘end date’, or a final point after which we would stop resisting and fighting. There is only one such point: our victory. As we bring it closer every day, we say, ‘We will fight for as long as it takes’.
“We were doing it in the first minutes of February 24th; we have been doing it for all these 585 days, and we will keep doing it.
“Glory to all those who are fighting and defending the homeland! Glory to our defenders! Glory to the Ukrainian people! Glory to Ukraine!”