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Ukrainian peacekeepers in Sarajevo

Ukrainian peacekeepers in Sarajevo

1993, 10 min

"Youth studio "Hart" program, April 22, 1993. Issue about sending the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent to Sarajevo.

On the video: footage of the dispatch of Ukrainian peacekeepers, military equipment, a plane with cargo, airports at Ancon airport (Italy), the landing of Ukrainian troops in Sarajevo, a train, the deployment of the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent. Comments by servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the head of the UN staff in the Sarajevo sector, Colonel Viktor Bezruchenko.

The presenter of the program is Ihor Slisarenko.

Note: Every year on July 15, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Peacekeepers. This day was established by the Verkhovna Rada in 2013. The date was chosen in honor of Ukraine's first participation in a peacekeeping operation in Bosnia on July 15, 1992. That was the beginning of the history of Ukrainian peacekeepers' participation in international operations.