A local citizen filmed this drive-through the streets of Kharkiv on Tuesday (August 24), the day before Ukraine marks independence day.

Russia is preparing to launch more strikes against Ukraine in the coming days, the US Embassy in Kyiv has said.

Moscow invaded Ukraine six months ago, on February 24.

Today is Ukraine Flag day , city day and tomorrow independence day . But this year independence day for Ukrainians are not like past so many years . This time they will be celebrating it under war situation. Goverment had put out severe restrictions and curfew alerting peole of a possible ugly attack from Russia .
In Kharkiv a couple named Mariam and Bohdan Syniavskiy decided to came out of their house and went for drive throughout the city roads . They travelled through the building of the State Industry «Держпром» (in Ukrainian), Karazin University and behind them is the Freedom Square , they also drive through the Yaroslava Mudrogo street ( city centre) in kharkiv .

Talking to Newsflare About the independence day amid war she tells

last year there was an atmosphere of togetherness
this year is exactly (!) the same , the difference is that last year all Kharkiv residents felt safe
But
we feel proud of our country.
we know that we will win this war
today, by the way, we have flag day and city day ❤️
and our Ukrainian flags hang over our Ukrainian city

Kharkiv locals drive through city streets on Ukraine's Independence Day