Il Colosseum lights up, again, with the colors of theUkraine. Tomorrow Thursday August 24, starting at 21, on the occasion of the Ukrainian Independence Day, That with Rome capital city projects the moving image of the flag with its yellow and blue colors onto the symbol of the capital, as a sign of closeness and solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
Already on 24 February, monuments, palaces and statues of the main cities of the world were colored in blue yellow on the occasion of the anniversary of the beginning of the conflict. Precisely to testify their solidarity with the Eastern European country and its capital besieged by Russia.
The independence of Ukraine
Independence was proclaimed on August 24, 1991. The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine came after the attempted coup d'état in the Soviet Union organized by some members of the Soviet government against the president Mikhail Gorbachev. The text was written during the night between 23 and 24 August and was then approved with an absolute majority by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR in an extraordinary 11-hour session. At the same time, there was also a vote to convene a referendum in support of the declaration of independence and to create the National Guard of Ukraine, held on December 1 of the same year.
It is the second year that the anniversary has been celebrated while the country is being invaded by the direct heir to the USSR, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
