Defiant Ukraine puts on military display as war rumbles in the east
- 10 years ago
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STORY: Armored vehicles and soldiers paraded in Kiev on Sunday (August 24) in a defiant national day display of military power that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said was being mobilized for a historic war of independence from Russia.
Soldiers, some due to head directly to the front where government forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists, staged a march past Kiev's Independence Square followed by a parade of armored vehicles armed with anti-tank weapons and trucks towing missile systems.
In a ceremony combining patriotism, solemnity and deep emotion, Poroshenko declared that Ukraine's war against pro-Russian separatists, who it says are armed by Moscow, would likely enter history as 'the 2014 patriotic war'.
"The events of the last few months have turned into a real war for us, an unannounced one. This war will be, probably, written in our history as Patriotic War of 2014. A war against external aggression. For Ukrai
STORY: Armored vehicles and soldiers paraded in Kiev on Sunday (August 24) in a defiant national day display of military power that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said was being mobilized for a historic war of independence from Russia.
Soldiers, some due to head directly to the front where government forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists, staged a march past Kiev's Independence Square followed by a parade of armored vehicles armed with anti-tank weapons and trucks towing missile systems.
In a ceremony combining patriotism, solemnity and deep emotion, Poroshenko declared that Ukraine's war against pro-Russian separatists, who it says are armed by Moscow, would likely enter history as 'the 2014 patriotic war'.
"The events of the last few months have turned into a real war for us, an unannounced one. This war will be, probably, written in our history as Patriotic War of 2014. A war against external aggression. For Ukrai