Ukrainian flag raised outside Verkhovna Rada

Speaker of the Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, posted this on Facebook and shared the corresponding video, Ukrinform reports.

"Today, as always, on August 23, we are raising the Ukrainian Flag at the walls of the Ukrainian parliament. It is important not to break this tradition, so that only our blue and yellow flag will fly here and throughout Ukraine always and for many years to come!" emphasized Stefanchuk.

As reported by Ukrinform, Ukraine marks National Flag Day on August 23.

The hiday was established "…to honor the centuries-d history of Ukrainian statehood, the state symbs of independent Ukraine, and to foster citizens' respect for the state symbs of Ukraine," reads the presidential decree of August 23, 2004.

In 2009, this decree was amended, and an annual official flag-raising ceremony was introduced across Ukraine on August 23.