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. …read more
Source: The Boston Globe
