Today, a daily morning ceremony of the commemoration of the Ukrainian defenders, who were perished this day at different years as a result of the Russian armed aggression, has been held at the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

The event was attended by representatives of the leadership of the Defence Ministry of Ukraine, officers and employees of subdivisions of the Ministry and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the servicemen of Kyiv garrison.

The Remembrance Bell has been rung today four times, one of them – in the honour of fallen reconnaissance man from the 24th separate mechanized brigade Captain Vitalii Seniuk. He was killed in 2017 while performing a combat task in Popasnianskyi district of Luhansk region. He was posthumously awarded the order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

The attendees paid the tribute to the memory of the Ukrainian defenders with minute of silence and laid flowers near the Remembrance Stela.