In Kiev, a parade was held with the participation of NATO

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A military parade on the occasion of the 26 anniversary of the independence of Ukraine took place on Thursday in the center of Kiev. For the first time, NATO servicemen took part in it, TASS

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak met participants in the parade at the American military Hummer instead of the traditional Soviet car GAZ "Chaika" with an open top.

In total, around 4,5, thousands of servicemen marched along the main street of the capital, Khreshchatyk, of whom more than 230 were representatives of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, and more than a thousand were participants in the military operation in Donbass.

In Kiev, a parade was held with the participation of NATO


At the invitation of Ukraine, ministers of defense and delegations from nine countries — the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Montenegro, Estonia, Turkey, and Moldova — also arrived in Kiev.

This year, military equipment did not take part in the celebrations; instead, on the Khreshchatyk, the Ministry of Defense organized an exhibition of military equipment, "The Power of the Unsubdued."

Speaking to the audience, President Poroshenko once again announced that Kiev is strictly following the path of integration into the EU and NATO.

We have one road: a wide Euro-Atlantic autobahn, which leads to membership in the European Union and membership in NATO. On this way, we have already destroyed the visa curtain.
- He said, referring to the introduction of a visa-free regime with EU countries. The President said that Ukraine continues to reform its Armed Forces to meet NATO standards, and has traditionally accused the Russian Federation of the situation in the Donbas.



The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak said during the celebrations that, according to NATO standards, 28 combat units of the country's Armed Forces had already been trained.

Now reforms are continuing in the Ukrainian army, which are unprecedented in scale and ambition in stories. Reforms are being introduced along with advisers and experts from NATO countries. By NATO standards, 28 combat units have already been trained. We are building the Armed Forces, which must reach the highest level of partnership with the North Atlantic Alliance
- noted Poltorak.

Full version of the parade:

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  1. +23
    24 August 2017 13: 34
    And remember how Ukrainians turned a finger at the temple when our experts said that in Ukraine there will be a NATO army and a Navy. Get a sign.
    1. +9
      24 August 2017 13: 39
      Yes, already sadly about the wretched to hear. And constantly ... wassat
      1. +27
        24 August 2017 13: 44
        Burning tricolor is not enough. And Soviet symbols ...
        To the music of the Third Reich
        1. +5
          24 August 2017 13: 55
          Quote: Logall
          Burning tricolor is not enough. And Soviet symbols ...

          No need to give them ideas !!!
          1. +13
            24 August 2017 14: 02
            Independence Day from Russian.
            So they need to name their coven. In this case there will be a correct interpretation.
            There live millions of people whose parents and grandfathers were Russian. And now he became non-Russians. Congratulations love A Ukrainian is one who has gained independence from his ancestors. fool
            On Independence Day in the square, foreign flags. laughing lol
          2. +18
            24 August 2017 14: 13
            I would also leave something interesting to them!
            A warhead, for example ...
            1. +2
              24 August 2017 15: 23
              With a red button? Yes, you are following in the footsteps of Sorg. ))))
              1. +16
                24 August 2017 15: 33
                Already threw it! Follow the news...
                1. +2
                  24 August 2017 15: 43
                  And you are working efficiently ...
                  https://topwar.ru/123363-vzryv-u-doma-pravitelstv
                  av-kieve.html
                  I know, black humor. Highly.
        2. +1
          24 August 2017 19: 26
          And Styopa Poltorak was supposed to meet the participants of the parade not on the American military Hummer, but on Zaporozhets, or Tavria
      2. +8
        24 August 2017 13: 58
        All this is disgusting. These "brothers" are now doing everything to somehow pinch Russia. The longer this continues, the more trouble they will do to us. It seems that their idea of ​​fixation is to annoy the hated Muscovy more by any means, even to the detriment of themselves.
        Yes, the Americans knew where to invest. Natsik’s legacy would sooner or later prove itself.
        1. 0
          24 August 2017 15: 49
          So they alone and the Jews remained in power! wassat
    2. +10
      24 August 2017 13: 41
      Take a look at how the Americans march .... some prisoners! bully

      Proebalts (Estonians) walk as they put in their pants .. no, well, seriously look at this miracle ..
      The British were pretty good at it (for a freelance paradish for them)
      1. +4
        24 August 2017 13: 43
        Quote: Nasr
        Take a look at how the Americans march .... some prisoners! bully

        And instead of the Indian Yar-Donbass
        1. +5
          24 August 2017 14: 11
          And instead of life - war. It is important not to let this dirt come to us.
      2. 0
        25 August 2017 13: 54
        The combatant is completely absent. Figley is for the parade of the "October troops" laughing Here we remember how we will begin to mint a step under "Farewell of the Slav" That's what a soul took! And this is the passage of the herd ...
    3. +15
      24 August 2017 13: 42
      To my deep regret, the Pentagon’s dream has partially come true - to hold a parade in Moscow, Minsk and Kiev.
      1. +5
        24 August 2017 13: 59
        Sergey, welcome! hi The merit is small to hold a parade in the city, which its owners presented with a bow and without a fight! wink Let them try to realize the rest of their dreams. angry
        1. +6
          24 August 2017 14: 13
          Napoleon walked around Moscow. The result of his company is known.
          They are there sick on the head. The same Napoleon trampled to Moscow, although Peter was the capital. What the heck? For lyuli?
          1. +5
            24 August 2017 14: 16
            Behind them, darlings. So NATO pushed for the same product.
            1. +8
              24 August 2017 14: 31
              Pash, I’ve dreamed a little here ... "The parade box 331 of the PDP 98 of the Airborne Division" closes the parade. "You wonder how cool they would look against this wretchedness?
              1. +3
                24 August 2017 14: 34
                Glory, hello! hi
                Quote: sabakina
                "Closes the parade box 331 PDP 98 Airborne Division"

                I imagined a panic after these words. That would really be a sight! lol
                1. +9
                  24 August 2017 15: 38
                  Pasha, hi hi "Dorisuyu" picture - the other two regiments 98 traffic rules are the "Guard of Honor" around the central part of Kiev. 331 RAP first "accepts" banners from other participants in the parade, and then
                  "Closes the parade box 331 PDP 98 Airborne Division"
                  showing how to really go. wink
      2. +5
        24 August 2017 22: 25
        Quote: Lord of the Sith
        To my deep regret, the Pentagon’s dream has partially come true - to hold a parade in Moscow, Minsk and Kiev.

        Seryoga, not everything is lost! Wait!
    4. +16
      24 August 2017 13: 46
      Our General Staff didn’t work out a bit! That's when it was necessary to occupy Estonia, all the powerful Armed Forces of this country, all 4 people participated in this freak show ... laughing

      As for the Ukrainians, the most popular question for the Ato participant is: "In which boiler did you serve?" laughing

      The paradox of Ukraine - a military parade dedicated to the "Independence Day" takes the Head of the Pentagon ... laughing

      I even took the word "independence" in quotation marks! Shameful yellow-blakidny ...
      1. +8
        24 August 2017 13: 53
        Finches .... The shame is yellow-blakidny ...

        hi
        ... there is no shame at the lackeys, there is only the zeal to lick the shoes of the owner and work out his soldering ...
        ... the usual herd, which the owner drives wherever he wants, wants - to graze, but wants to - for slaughter, for meat ... bully
        1. +2
          24 August 2017 14: 10
          Non-slaves wassat But normal Ukrainians, fortunately, are many.
          1. +6
            24 August 2017 14: 25
            Where are they, your normal Ukrainians ???
            1. +1
              24 August 2017 14: 57
              Sit home and adapt hi Most of the population, especially the family, will not go into the militia or underground with the risk of getting into the SBU, but the weather will wait by the sea, lodge.
    5. +3
      24 August 2017 13: 53
      Hold me seven ... Six will not hold)))) the power of the unconquered)))))
      1. 0
        24 August 2017 16: 42
        And the supreme commander-in-chief was somehow sad at the sight of his army. Cheered up when he saw the mattresses.
    6. 0
      26 August 2017 02: 16
      Quote: RASKAT
      And remember how Ukrainians turned a finger at the temple when our experts said that in Ukraine there will be a NATO army and a Navy. Get a sign.

      So everyone seems to be happy ...
  2. +7
    24 August 2017 13: 36
    ... Petska today is happy, tomorrow is drunk, the day after tomorrow they will bang their ... laughing
  3. +11
    24 August 2017 13: 38
    Grandfathers from the coffins will start to get up!

  4. +21
    24 August 2017 13: 40
    Everything is clear, the Russian occupation!
  5. +13
    24 August 2017 13: 41
    Shame on Nazi Hohland
  6. +4
    24 August 2017 13: 56
    As, the Colorado Cockroach wrote: "Today only circulate in the circus!" request Better not to say! laughing
    1. 0
      24 August 2017 14: 00
      Not in the circus, but in the nuthouse ....
  7. +1
    24 August 2017 14: 00
    In Nato, a parade was held with the participation of Kuev ... ,,,,))))
  8. +9
    24 August 2017 14: 01
    NATO parade in Kuev with the participation of saloyed !!! Shame !!! Moyahataskrayschiki, you our deepest contempt !!! It’s good that your grandfathers / great-grandfathers did not live, forgive the Lord!
  9. +4
    24 August 2017 14: 02
    You can’t come up with a more miserable parade.
  10. +10
    24 August 2017 14: 09
    English uniform
    Shoulder strap french
    Japanese tobacco,
    The ruler of Washington ...
    So, inspired by .....
  11. +2
    24 August 2017 14: 15
    Something they there in hohloin often with gay parades laughing
    1. +2
      24 August 2017 14: 20
      Quote: Proton
      Something they there in hohloin often with gay parades laughing

      Such is the peculiarity of virtual guidedness: striving in a geyropu defeated reason and conscientiousness.
  12. +4
    24 August 2017 14: 18
    Deeply symbolic - the Independence Day parade was marked by the passage of foreign military units along the central streets of the capital ...
    There is almost nowhere to bend below, just admit to being a colony of the USA and kiss ... well McCain.
    I think they would have invited the Hitler troops to walk, if only to show all this to Russia.
    Ну и что?
    In Moscow, too, troops of fascist Germany marched once along the central streets. winked
  13. +2
    24 August 2017 14: 19
    We have only one road: the wide Euro-Atlantic autobahn, which leads to membership - you can go no further
  14. +3
    24 August 2017 14: 25
    Most of all I was struck by Poland-the 3rd standard-bearer and one with a saber!
  15. +3
    24 August 2017 14: 32
    "We are building the Armed Forces, which must achieve the highest level of partnership with the North Atlantic Alliance."
    - Wet dreams of Polothorak.
    Which means that 404 will lead and lead the NATO bloc, like Moses Jews in the deserts, only give money!
  16. +3
    24 August 2017 14: 37
    The ideology of betrayal elevated to the rank of state policy!
    Ah, the Slavs, the Slavs ...
  17. +3
    24 August 2017 14: 38
    Time passes, but the brothers remain the same ...


  18. +5
    24 August 2017 15: 01
    For me, such holidays are better
    1. +2
      24 August 2017 15: 18
      In no case ! To invest in Ruin is tantamount to pouring them into the toilet.
      1. +1
        24 August 2017 16: 25
        Ukraine must be dealt with in the same way as the Russian or Polish masters always acted (depending on who owned the territory) - to deprive statehood for its own safety, as a state incapable of living independently.
        1. +1
          24 August 2017 17: 19
          No one needs such a crap to fight for him. Territory 404 does not have huge reserves of mineral resources, industry is almost destroyed, and the local fauna is rapidly running wild. The only purpose of the U country is the US bridgehead for aggression against Russia, which should not be allowed. If the territory cannot be seized with reasonable costs, then it must be drawn for an indefinite period of time, turning it into an analogue of Somalia.
          1. +2
            24 August 2017 19: 00
            Quote: Krasnyiy komissar
            The only purpose of the U country is the US bridgehead for aggression against Russia, which should not be allowed.

            This show is for this purpose arranged .. The threat of Russia and annoy us already on our borders and in the former allied!
            In the days of the USSR, in the GDR on the border with the Federal Republic of Germany, they held back the NATO troops .. They were not afraid of anything and would have torn all sweeping in their path .. Oh, a hunchback would hang you on the frontal place in Moscow by the legs ..

            Then there was mutual understanding, and God forbid someone will deceive someone in negotiations, etc.
          2. 0
            24 August 2017 21: 27
            Respected! You "+" from the heart, only this territory can be made a draw by a tactical nuclear charge, but do we need it?
            1. +1
              25 August 2017 01: 33
              Why immediately nuclear? The Syrian scenario of the war of all with everyone is completely alright. In five to six years of active assistance from the “armed opposition,” half of the population will flee or die in the course of the fighting. The shame of betrayal can only be washed away by the blood of traitors!
    2. 0
      26 August 2017 20: 13
      Quote: GAndr
      For me, such holidays are better

      The reunification of Ukraine and Russia, which I connect with the Pereyaslav Rada, was a meeting of representatives of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks led by hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky, held on January 8 (18), 1654 in Pereyaslav, at which the decision to unite was made public the territory of the Zaporizhzhya Army with the Russian Empirefixed by the oath of allegiance to the king. The Zaporizhzhya army and most of the people in the territory subordinate to it were Russian people, Orthodox. Then there was no Ukraine and no Ukrainians. Even after 200 years, when Gogol wrote his story Taras Bulba (1836-1842), this was not the case either. So no epoch-making event happened then. Zaporizhzhya Cossacks swore allegiance to the Russian Tsar several times. The first such event occurred in 1552, when Dmitry Volyn prince Dmitry Vishnevetsky, founder of the first Zaporizhzhya (Khortytsky) section, then the head of the Cherkasy Cossacks, entered into an alliance with Ivan the Terrible and participated in a joint campaign against the Crimean khan. After this, and even after the Preyaslav Rada, the Zaporozhye Cossacks repeatedly betrayed the Russian Tsar, entered into alliances with the Tatars, Turks, Poles and fought against Russia. In the end, Catherine II completely eliminated this prostitute bandit formation. Part of the Zaporozhye Cossacks was resettled in the Kuban and from them the Kuban Cossack army was formed.
      And if there is a desire to celebrate, then there are many Orthodox and state holidays. Only by the branches of the armed forces and by the professions of the holidays are several dozen + days of Russian victories in all wars.
  19. +3
    24 August 2017 15: 34
    I don’t understand what the fuss is about? Well, NATO troops marched. And what? I remember both the Chinese and the Kazakhs, and I think the Indians were on Red Square. Each has its own allies. But the fact that Ukraine was drained is FACT. That's what sadness is about.
    1. +1
      24 August 2017 16: 45
      Well, not on Independence Day))) It was a Victory Parade. I'm talking about the Chinese and Indians on Red Square.
  20. 0
    24 August 2017 15: 53
    All this Khreshchatyk with all the covens had to be covered with a copper basin and the deal was over! angry
  21. 0
    24 August 2017 16: 45
    And what are they shouting there, Hurray or something? It seems not Russian ...
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  23. +6
    24 August 2017 17: 31
    Today, August 24, 2017 (remember this date), the "Secretary of Defense" in Kiev is hosted by the US Secretary of Defense, and NATO soldiers march along Khreshchatyk.
    I have already read a bunch of mocking comments, many of them from a position of superiority - like we are such a great power, and Ukraine is a US colony, ahaha.
    Although in general this is a SHAME. National shame.
    No, not Ukraine - Russia.
    The shame of Russia as a Russian state (Americans marching in Kiev, “mothers of Russian cities”) and the shameful failure of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, which allowed a coup in a neighboring state, in which our main geopolitical adversary now rules.
    You can trend a lot about a great power, the geopolitical genius of Putin, etc., but in our neighboring country we have not a pro-Russian, but a radically anti-Russian, fiercely Russophobic regime. And in this country, the Minister of Defense of not Russia, but the United States takes a military parade. And according to Khreshchatyk, not Russian, but American soldiers marching.
    Who is the great power - the United States, which they do what they want next to Russia (Georgia, the Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus is next in turn), or the Russian Federation, which is not even dumb to join, but at least recognize LDN? It’s dumb not even because of the “third world war,” which will not be, but because of smelly economic sanctions, because of the dough and real estate of the Russian elite.
    Americans from another continent overthrow the regimes, build military bases and hold military parades on OUR borders. The Russians in response laugh at the x-rubbish and talk about the great Russian mnogohodovochka.
    The worst thing is not the Americans, "a holy place does not happen empty." The worst thing is how they look at it on both sides of the filthy Bialowieza border. Ukrainians have American awards to ATO fighters, gay parades and NATO soldiers ’marches in Kiev - this is a national holiday. We have all this for a long time passed the category of "what is there at x-chlov".
    For x-hlov, not Russian, that’s the problem.
    We ourselves surrendered the Russian majority in Ukraine to x-trash, abandoned Ukraine as part of Russia and from its millions of people as part of the Russian people. Therefore, what is happening there today - this is not what the x-hols, ahaha - is our national tragedy and our national shame.

    Alexander Zhuchkovsky
  24. +1
    24 August 2017 18: 19
    USA, UK, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Montenegro, Estonia, Turkey and Moldova.

    The whole riffraff assembly ...! Israel, as always, is in the shade and Georgia is not .. hehe
    Waltzman must have drunk a thousand in joy drinks
  25. +1
    24 August 2017 19: 15
    Impressions...
    - a hard look at Poroshenko ....
    - Irina Gerashchenko never wiped her palms in her bangs and generally did it without much enthusiasm, so she again lost her meaning ...
    - the troops, as they really did not know how to walk in a solemn march, did not learn ...
  26. +3
    24 August 2017 20: 16
    You can certainly laugh as much as you like, but NATO soldiers marching along Khreshchatyk speak of the failure of all of Russia's foreign policy over the past 20 years.
  27. 0
    24 August 2017 22: 00
    Quote: Nasr
    Take a look at how the Americans march .... some prisoners! bully

    Proebalts (Estonians) walk as they put in their pants .. no, well, seriously look at this miracle ..
    The British were pretty good at it (for a freelance paradish for them)

    It seems that the pants do not care ... whether.
  28. 0
    24 August 2017 22: 03
    Quote: ShM05
    You can certainly laugh as much as you like, but NATO soldiers marching along Khreshchatyk speak of the failure of all of Russia's foreign policy over the past 20 years.

    And we generally had a foreign policy, starting from the time of Gorbachev.
  29. 0
    24 August 2017 22: 46
    Guys not long ago in Kiev in different parts of the city someone wrote at a bus stop and on the same wall of the house: "DEATH OF THE USA". The emphasis is the same.

    Perhaps the underground is already sharpening its teeth, the power will change, so remember my words.

    By the way - back in 2013 there were completely different inscriptions like: ss galicia, the right sector ... Now you will not see this. The people begin to understand little by little that they threw him as though in the 90s
  30. 0
    25 August 2017 13: 44
    and note that all on foot and tankers and the rest) army without equipment
  31. 0
    25 August 2017 13: 45
    At the meeting: -And there are people who will sell their mother for a dime!
    From the audience: - "But we drink too much!"
  32. 0
    25 August 2017 13: 48
    NATA is still crying. Charles XII was badly damaged by entich allies. First, Mazepa left the Swede without a guzzle, draining Baturin. Then the mass of light Cossack cavalry of Kuda then wandered, leaving the Normans without reconnaissance and guard of the rear. As a result, Karl was left without gunpowder after an unexpected defeat of the train of Loewenheve (Levengaupt). In the Battle of Poltava, the Swedish commander generally pushed the Ukrainians far away so as not to give out his cunning plan to hit the sleeping Rusaks at night. Mazepins daredevils would wake the Peter army ahead of schedule with their inappropriate stomp and hiccups ...
  33. 0
    26 August 2017 17: 07
    “Russia doesn’t perceive any Ukraine at all. Therefore, in the Russian laboratories they first invented Novorossiya, then they came up with Little Russia. As you say, let them go crazy. And our Ukraine will be successful,” said the president of a country that exists 26 years old.
    Ukrainians and the Ukrainian language did not exist until the beginning of the 20th century.


    There were a couple of hundred Ukrainophiles from among the intelligentsia. So this is more sectarian. Until they received the support of Austria-Hungary so their attempts were zero. And when the Austrians needed to suppress the Russian population (Rusyns) on their territory, Ukrainization rolled over. But the main thing in Ukrainization was done by the Bolsheviks during the targeted Ukrainization of the 20-30s. And they created the dictionary, and the encyclopedia, the language was cleaned up and unified, and the songs were edited, people were taught to write and speak Kiev ... But according to the Ukrainian law on decommunication, this must be abandoned !!! That's where the brain explosion!
  34. 0
    26 August 2017 21: 20
    If you listen to the broadcast on the central Ukrainian television parade on August 24, then this is just an explosion of the brain (their brain!):

    Listen to at least the beginning of the broadcast and you will find out what a tremendous contribution to the formation of European civilization and medieval history was made by a people who did not exist until the beginning of the 20th century and a state that existed for about 3 years (1917-1920) in several areas (migrating from one to another) on the border of Romania, Austria-Hungary, Poland and Russia, and 26 years at the turn of the 20-21 centuries. A state that has not founded and built not a single city, not a single architectural monument - that is, has not left any trace in history.

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