this is just a symbol of ukrainian defenders. that's how i consider it in fact, oleksandr matievskyi was mentioned by the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi in his address and congratulations to ukrainians on independence day today, and now to lviv we will tell you about the first blue-yellow flag in ukrainian history on the roof of the lviv city hall now our correspondent halyna tereshchuk halyna congratulations i know that blue the yellow flag over the lviv town hall was the first in the middle of the 19th century. well, it was also one of the first. when ukraine was on its way to leaving the ussr, tell us the details. greetings , colleague. greetings to all viewers of svoboda radio. in fact, i am now at the city hall and to the blue-and-yellow flag. and i can literally give my hand. but we will move from april 3, 1990, when this blue-and-yellow flag was actually hung here, to 175 years ago, when in 1848, an unknown resident of lviv actually hung a blue- the yellow rurva, but not here on the mountain, but somewhere on one of the windows of the city hall nearby, a white and re