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Ukraine on August 2 commemorates paratroopers killed in battles.

It was Airborne Forces Day on August 2 inherited from the Soviet times (established in 1930) and still marked in Russia with notorious plunging into fountains, drinking vodka and street fighting beyond the official agenda, until Ukraine’s Airborne Forces were renamed Air Assault Forces late in October 2017 and a new date for their professional holiday was set.

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