“This is really a holiday! ... that day, we all, regardless of language, gender and religion, came together to live together in a single and independent country,” Zelensky wrote on his Facebook page.

He noted that a whole generation of born in an independent country has already grown in Ukraine.

“And this is our future. For the sake of which we must continue to be united! ”, The Ukrainian president emphasized.

In September, the first Ukrainian leader, Leonid Kravchuk, said that residents in a referendum in 1991 stood for independent Ukraine in alliance with Russia.