Around a thousand people gathered on Sunday to remember the massacre of Jews in Kiev at the hands of the Nazi regime 70 years earlier, state news agency Ukrinform reported.
A large crowd moved through Kiev and a minute of silence was marked, but there were no speeches, the report said.
An official commemorative event is set for Wednesday, with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier due to attend.
The event is to be at Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital where the massacres were carried out. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on September 29-30, 1941, leaving approximately 33,771 Jews dead.
