The Day of Ukraine`s Unity was celebrated in Odessa on January 22, 2018.

 
The solemn ceremony of laying flowers to Taras Shevchenko`s monument took place in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after T.G. Shevchenko.

 
The event was attended by the city authorities, representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Odessa, veteran organizations and associations and public.

 
In the churches of Odessa were held prayers for the unity of Ukraine.

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INFORMATION:
On January 22, 1918, with its Fourth Universal, the Central Council announced the Ukrainian People’s Republic to be an independent and free State of the Ukrainian People. And on January 22, 1919, the act of Ukrainian People’s Republic and Western Ukrainian People’s Republic unification took place.