A military parade was held in Kyiv on Monday on occasion of the 18th anniversary of Ukraine's independence.
Around 20 samples of armament and military equipment have been
displayed along the Khreschatyk Street from Independence Square to
European Square.
Around 3,400 of military men and law-enforcers have marched along
Khreschatyk Street. Eighteen military bands were playing during the
parade.
Besides, a total of 35 aircraft, including fighters, bombers, attack
planes, eight helicopters and three civil aircraft, flew over the city.
At 2200, festive fireworks will be fired in Kyiv, Sevastopol, Odesa, Kerch, Vinnytsia, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Rivne and Dnipropetrovsk.
This has been the fifth Independence Day parade involving military
hardware in Ukraine over the years of independence. Similar events took
place in 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2008. Other parades to mark the
Independence Day were held without military weaponry, except for 2005,
when there was no military parade at all.
