Today, June 6, Ukraine marks the Day Journalist.
The holiday was established on May 25, 1994, by a decree of then-President Leonid Kravchuk, following an initiative by delegates of the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Newspaper and Magazine Editors.
June 6 was chosen as the official date because on that day in 1992, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine was admitted to the International Federation of Journalists.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Oleksandr Syrskyi congratulated journalists on their professional holiday.
He said that in these difficult times, the work of journalists is of particular importance.
