2010 Kiev Victory Day Parade

The 2010 Kiev Victory Day Parade was held on May 9, 2010 in Kiev, honoring the 65th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War (in 2015 Ukraine altered this day to Victory Day over Nazism in World War II[1]).[2] Military vehicles and soldiers dressed in Soviet Army uniforms marched on Khreschatyk Street and through Maidan Nezalezhnosti.[3] Inspecting the parade was the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces General of the Army Ivan Svyda while the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Colonel General Gennady Vorobyov commanded the parade. The President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych delivered a jubilee address in his position as Supreme Commander. 2,500 members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as troops from Russia and Belarus (the former taking part in a joint contingent with the Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Guard Regiment) took part in the parade.[4][5][6] 17 military bands took part in the parade under the command of the Chief of the Military Music Department of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Major General Volodymyr Derkach.[7]

A color guard in Kiev.
  • Personnel of the Independent Presidential Regiment marching with a unit from the Russian Airborne Troops on Maidan Nezalezhnosti during the parade.

References
  1. Ukraine Purges Symbols of Its Communist Past, Newsweek, (10 April 2015)
  2. "Ukraine holds military parade to mark 65th anniversary Victory Day - People's Daily Online". en.people.cn. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. "Ukraine Marks Victory Day With Military Parade". news.kievukraine.info. Archived from the original on 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  4. "A grand parade befitting a grand victory 65 years ago - May. 13, 2010". KyivPost. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  5. https://amp.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=358235&tid=76573
  6. https://focus.ua/politics/113935
  7. "2010 Kiev Victory Day Parade".
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