September 30 was chosen as the Independence Day to commemorate the date on which the Georgian government troops and ethnic Georgians were driven out by the Abkhaz secessionist forces and their allies from much of Abkhazia, including the capital, Sukhumi, in a series of fierce battles during the war in Abkhazia in 1993.

[1][2] On August 14, 1992, troops of the State Council of Georgia led by Tengiz Kitovani entered in Abkhazia.

2018 celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Patriotic War, which included the parading of a captured T-55 tank with the call sign "01" on Freedom Square.

[10] Every five years, a military parade in honor of the jubilee anniversary of the Victory and Independence of Abkhazia is held on Freedom Square in Sukhumi.

Annual participants include formations from the armed forces, militarized formations, guests contingents from the Armed Forces of Russia and the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia, as well as the Cossacks of the Black Sea, Don and Kuban Cossacks.