Defiant show
, August 24, 2014
Members of the National Guard march during Ukraine's Independence Day military parade, in the centre of Kiev on August 24. 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. Reuters/Gleb Garanich