European leaders joined President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on August 24 for official celebrations marking Ukraine’s Independence Day as Russia pushes on with its four-year-old invasion of the country.…

The European Commission has raised the Ukrainian flag in Brussels, while Paris plans to illuminate the Eiffel Tower in blue and yellow for Independence Day.

Leaders from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway arrived in Kyiv on Aug. 23 ahead of Independence Day.