Some 500 soldiers from the "Coalition of the Willing" backing Ukraine marched down Paris's Champs-Elysees on Tuesday in the annual Bastille Day parade, in a showcase of support for Kyiv and a symbolic flexing of European military muscle.
A huge French tricolour flag, hanging below the monumental Napoleon-era Arc du Triomphe at the top of the Champs-Elysées, rippled in the wind as a military band on horseback rode down the tree-lined avenue – followed by President Emmanuel Macron standing in an open military vehicle to kick off the parade.
