First-Year Cadets Of The Lviv State University Of Internal Affairs Swore Allegiance To The Ukrainian People

LVIV, UKRAINE - OCTOBER 20: Meri Akopian, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, posing for a joint selfie with first-year students of the Lviv State University of Internal Affairs after they took the oath of office of the National Police on October 20, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. 362 cadets representing 17 regions of Ukraine and the city of Kyiv swore allegiance to the Ukrainian people. 9 people are internally displaced from the occupied by Russian forces territories, 22 cadets are children of Ukrainian combatants. First, those present honored a memory of soldiers, law enforcement officers and volunteers who died for the will and independence of Ukraine, and laid flowers at the memorial to the memory of police officers, fighters of the Special Tasks Patrol Police battalion “Lviv”. (Photo by Kateryna Rodak/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)