Ahead of tomorrow's Independence Day parade, Ukraine displayed captured Russian tanks, destroyed military trucks, and artillery pieces through Kyiv’s city center Tuesday (August 23) as a defiant parade.

The destroyed military equipment was first put on display on Saturday.

“In February, Russians were planning a parade in downtown Kyiv,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said on Twitter.

"They came to us to kill our children, destroy our homes, so that later they could parade along Khreshchatyk. But something went wrong," the said General Valeriy Zaluzhny, head commander of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a message.

On the eve of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian invaders were sure that their equipment would parade along the central street of Kyiv - Khreshchatyk. But the Rashists were stopped on the outskirts of the capital.
Military equipment of the Russian Federation will still visit Khreshchatyk. True, she is rusty, disabled and without a crew. We are talking about an exhibition of Russian equipment destroyed by Ukrainian defenders. She was brought to the center of Kyiv on the eve of the anniversary of the Independence Day of Ukraine, which is celebrated on August 24.
"They came to us to kill our children, destroy our homes, so that later they could parade along Khreshchatyk. They even brought dress uniforms with pinned medals. But something went wrong. Some of them fertilized the Ukrainian land, and some - in captivity asks for forgiveness," the command of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a message.the last days they say that russia can hit the center of kiev, despite this, people on independence day and on other days go to the center of Kyiv and look at the exhibition