LVIV, UKRAINE - MARCH 14: Head of Lviv Regional Council Iryna Hrymak offers thanks to volunteers, on the Ukrainian Volunteer Day at the hall of Lviv Regional Council in Lviv, Ukraine on March 14, 2023. Photos in the exhibitions show volunteers that stepped up to defend Ukraine from the first days of the war. March 14 is celebrated as the ‘Ukrainian Volunteer Day’ since on this day in 2014, the first 500 volunteer fighters of Maidan Self-Defense arrived at the Novi Petrivtsi training ground to form the first volunteer battalion, which later formed the 1st BOP of NSU named after Kulchytskyi. Pavlo Palamarchuk / Anadolu Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM