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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Defiant Ukraine turns on military display as war rumbles on in the east

Border guards march during Ukraine's Independence Day military parade, in the centre of Kiev By Richard Balmforth and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Armoured vehicles and soldiers paraded in Kiev on Sunday in a defiant national day display of military power that Ukrainian President Petro Poroskenko said was being mobilised for an 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 marchpast on Kiev's Independence Square followed by a parade of armoured vehicles armed with anti-tank weapons and trucks towing missile systems.




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