Today it is marked the twenty-seventh anniversary of Ukraine's independence.
In honor of the Independence Day of Ukraine on August 24, 2018 in Odessa T. Shevchenko’s Park was held a solemn ceremony of laying flowers at the monument to Great Kobzar.

 
The event was attended by city and regional authorities, deputies, representatives of various arms of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Odessa, the clergy and public.