DONETSK - On a day when Ukrainians celebrated their independence from the Soviet Union with parades and speeches, pro-Russian separatists in the eastern part of the country staged a grim counter-spectacle: a parade that mocked the national army and celebrated the death and imprisonment of its soldiers.
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New York Times: In eastern Ukraine, rebel mockery amid Independence celebration
A vehicle part of a column of Ukrainian air-landing troops drives on a road near the small eastern Ukrainian city of Druzhkivka, in the Donetsk region, on April 19, 2014.
