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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (2nd R) greets servicemen who participated in Ukraine's Independence Day military parade in the centre of Kiev August 24, 2014.
Armored vehicles and soldiers, some of them hardened in battle, paraded on Kiev's main square on Sunday to mark Independence Day in a defiant show of the military force Ukraine's government hopes will defeat pro-Russian separatists in the east.
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Ukrainian forces parade during a military ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of Ukraine's independence in the center of Kiev on August 24, 2014
(AFP Photo/Sergei Supinsky)