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Miroslav Simchich (C), a veteran of the Ukrainian insurgent army (UPA), and Iraida Kibitkina (L) and Ivan Zaluzhny, World War Two veterans, shake hands during a meeting dedicated to the 70th anniversary of World War Two at the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 years in Kiev, May 6, 2015. Spurning what is expected to be a display of military swagger in Moscow on Saturday, Kiev plans to put the accent at home on reconciliation rather than triumphalism and victory. But some Ukrainians fear associating the struggle in World War Two with today's struggle against Russia will deepen splits in a politically divided population and hand propaganda gifts to Moscow, which equates Kiev with treachery and fascism. (Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters)
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