The heroes who fell in the 1992 armed conflict defending the territorial integrity and independence of the Republic of Moldova are being commemorated today, March 2. On the Day of Remembrance and Gratitude, religious services were held in churches across the country, while dozens of people - including veterans, relatives, police officers, officials, and the country’s top leadership - gathered to lay flowers at the monument of Prince Stephen the Great, IPN reports.
After the flower-laying ceremony, the March of Remembrance began. Participants, alongside President Maia Sandu, Prime Minister Dorin Recean, and Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu, set out from the Great National Assembly Square toward the "Eternity" Memorial Complex.
To the sound of a marching band, the procession moved along Stephen the Great and Holy Boulevard, with officers carrying photographs of the fallen heroes. The march will conclude with a flower-laying ceremony and a memorial gathering at the "Eternity" Memorial Complex.
Commemorative events are also taking place in cemeteries across the country, at the gravesites of former employees of the internal affairs bodies and soldiers who perished in combat. Memorial meals are being organized with the participation of veterans and the families of those who fell on the battlefield.
March 2 marks 33 years since the start of the armed actions to defend Moldova’s territorial integrity and independence, in which 40,000 Moldovan citizens took part. A total of 321 people lost their lives in battle.
