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What happened on Ukraine's State Flag Day in 2018?
Summary
A look back at the 2018 holiday, marked by a record-sized flag-raising in Dnipro, and at US sanctions announced two days earlier.
What did Ukraine's State Flag Day look like on 23 August 2018? Celebrations took place across the country and beyond its borders.
The central moment came in Dnipro. There, President Petro Poroshenko raised the largest national flag, measuring 12 by 18 metres, as part of the holiday events.
Sanctions two days earlier
On 21 August 2018, two days before the holiday, the United States imposed sanctions on two Russian shipping companies and six vessels. Washington said they were involved in transferring oil to North Korea. The measure was part of the wider state of Russia–United States relations at the time.
The two items were unconnected, but together they mark the days around 23 August 2018: a national holiday in Ukraine, and a new round of US sanctions on Russian shipping firms.
