Ukraine's Victory Day Date Change Sparks Tensions with Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine will stop celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9 and instead mark the event a day earlier on May 8, cementing a break with Ukraine's history as part of the Soviet Union. Russia celebrates the defeat of the Nazis on May 9, while May 8 is known as "Victory in Europe Day." Zelenskyy said that Ukraine, like other European nations, would instead adopt May 9 as "Europe Day," a celebration of the "peace and unity in Europe" after the war introduced by the Council of Europe in 1964.