Very important: the government has determined the place of the military cemetery near Kiev
According to the head of the government, the creation of such a cemetery is very important for our country. "We always have to remember those who gave their lives for Ukraine in the war for our freedom and independence," Smigal said. In September 2023, Focus wrote that the Ministry of Veterans considered 5 variants of plots under the military cemetery.
"One is in Bykivna, the other-near the Gatnen community of Kyiv region, in fact Vita-Poshtov, the third plot-in the territory of the memorial complex, where the homeland is located, the fourth-in Pushcha-Voditsa and the fifth-in Belgorodka of the Kiev region", - said the exader of the head of the department Konstantin Tatarkin. According to him, after consultation with the Ministry of Culture, the plot A bikovna (the area of Kiev. - Ed. ) Was approved.
The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law that enshrined the construction of a new cemetery next to the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Bikivnyansky Tombs". The document was sent to the President, but the head of state did not sign it. On December 8, 2023, the Parliament passed a new law on the National Military Memorial Cemetery.
This document already provided that the location of the future memorial should be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers "on the submission of the central executive body, which ensures the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of social protection of war veterans. " Prime Minister Denis Shmigal declared his intention to open the first and foremost a national military memorial cemetery in the first half of 2024.