DONETSK (AFP) – Thousands of men and women gathered on Lenin square in east Ukraines main rebel-held city Donetsk on Monday to celebrate a Soviet-era holiday and pay hommage to their fallen fighters.Military music blasted out as a cossack dressed in black and a leather-clad rocker carried an icon of the Virgin Mary with Jesus onto a stage to mark Russias Defender of the Fatherland Day, originally a celebration of the mighty Soviet Red Army.This festival is a celebration of the army of workers and peasants, a woman shouted into the microphone.Commanders in camouflage from the Vostok battalion of the …read more
Source: Dunya TV
