July 14: How the parade will echo the war in Ukraine

Admittedly, there will be neither Ukrainian soldiers on the Champs-Élysées nor video intervention – as rumor has sometimes gone around – of President Volodymyr Zelensky, but the war in Ukraine will be very present in the minds, this Thursday, for the traditional military parade of July 14. This will be seen from the outset, since the parade on foot will be opened by the flag bearers of nine Eastern European countries, most of which are neighbors of Russia or Ukraine: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Republic Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria.