KYIV – On August 24 Ukraine celebrated the 28th Independence Day anniversary and although festivities were held all around the country, attention was focused on the capital to see how the country’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, would impose his new style on proceedings, and what the reaction would be.
There were indeed plenty of surprises and innovations in what turned out to be a colorful yet poignant symbiosis of the new and the old. And the occasion was not without controversy, or wonder, either.