A military parade was staged in the center of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk on May 9 on the occasion of Victory Day.
Over 50 pieces of military equipment were involved in the event, according to Russian proxies` news portals.
”An L-29 military jet trainer aircraft [a standard jet trainer for the air forces of Warsaw Pact nations in the 1960s] has been showcased for the first time in three years,” the Ukrainian news portal Novosti Donbasa wrote on Tuesday, May 9.
Traffic along streets in the center of the occupied city was blocked in connection with the May 9 events. The central square was guarded by militants and special patrolmen wearing red armbands saying ”DND” [the acronym of the Donetsk self-defense militia in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People`s Republic (”DPR”)].
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There was also a march organized by Russian-registered NGO Bessmertny Polk. People were carrying photos of mercenaries killed in the ongoing war against Ukraine, namely those of leader of the Donetsk-based Kalmius terrorist gang Alexander Nemogai, commander of the ”DPR”-based Somali terrorist battalion Mikhail Tolstykh (nom de guerre Givi) and commander of the ”DPR”-based Sparta special militant unit Arsen Pavlov (nom de guerre Motorola).
Participants in the event were also holding ”DPR” flags, those of Russia and the so-called Novorossiya – a Russian propaganda-fueled project represented by an artificially formed union of two self-proclaimed Donetsk People`s Republic and Luhansk People`s Republic in Donbas, Ukraine`s east.
The marching column was led by so-called ”DPR” leader Alexander Zakharchenko, according to the militant resource DAN.
Bessmertny Polk (literally Immortal Regiment) is a Russian-registered propagandist non-governmental organization. It arranges marches devoted to the Soviet Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) inside and outside Russia. It now works in 64 countries and regions, but Bessmertny Polk events have recently been banned in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as those that violate Islamic norms.
Bessmertny Polk members participate in annual marches on Victory Day on May 9. They carry photos of their family members who were war veterans, resistance fighters, prisoners of concentration camps, survivors of sieges, and persons born in time of war. The organization also keeps a memorial log of their family stories on its website.
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10 May 2017
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