KIEV, Nov. 24 - Thousands of people from all over Ukraine gathered Saturday on a square in Kiev to mourn the millions who died of starvation during a famine engineered by the Soviet authorities 75 years ago.

President Viktor Yushchenko, speaking to the crowd, once again called on the international community to recognize the Holodomor — or death by hunger — as an act of genocide.

"We neither overestimate nor underestimate the scale of this grief," he said, according to The Associated Press.