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On Saturday, November 22, Ukraine is holding a nationwide commemoration for the victims of the Holodomor famines.
“Right now, candles of remembrance are being lit in our homes one after another for all the innocent victims of the Holodomors. It was a systemic strike against the Ukrainian people — a policy of genocide that today’s Russia has inherited and once again made part of its ideology. Millions of horrific deaths, most of them during the Holodomor of 1932–33,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
“Today, millions of our people will light candles of remembrance, and this is our shared tribute to the victims of the Holodomor. But it is also a reminder — for all of us and for everyone in the world — that preserving memory is an act of defending justice, defending life, and ensuring that murderers are never rewarded for destroying human beings,” the president added.
On November 22, Ukraine honors the memory of the millions who were killed in the Holodomor of 1932–33 and in the man-made famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947. In 2025, the Holodomor Memorial Day, as tradition holds, falls on the fourth Saturday of November.
