For the first time in 70 years, Ukraine has remembered World War II victims on 8 May, the day when memorial services are held in European countries, reported euronews correspondent Dmytro Polonsky from Kiev.<br /><br /> “And instead of Saint George’s ribbons, people now wear red poppies,” he added.<br /><br /> The commemorations came 24 hours ahead of Russia.<br /><br /> President Petro Poroshenko was keen to unite those with different views of the war and to set the day apart from Moscow, which Ukraine accuses of stoking a year-old pro-Russian rebellion in its eastern regions.<br /><br /> “I don’t really want to wear symbols of people who believe that Ukraine didn’t have a great part in the Great Patriotic War,” said one woman in Kiev.<br /><br /> Some eight million Ukrainians died in World War Two, roughly half of them civilians.
