Ukraine Shows Off Military Might With Parade in Kiev, as Rebels March POWs in Donetsk
KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine boasted its new military might on Sunday, parading troops and hardware through the capital to mark the 23rd anniversary of the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, Russian-backed rebels in the eastern city of Donetsk held a parade of their own, in which they displayed destroyed Ukrainian artillery, and marched prisoners of war through the center of town at gunpoint.
About 1,500 uniformed soldiers, 120 of whom had recently returned from the frontlines of the fight against rebels in the east, strutted in unison in a symbolic show of strength down Kiev’s central Khreshchatyk Street and through Independence Square, or Maidan, where protesters in February toppled former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, setting the current conflict in motion. Read more...
More about Russia, Us World, World, and Ukraine
Post a CommentDefault CommentsFacebook Comments