Zelenskyy: ‘No expensive military parade’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the country will not hold an “expensive” military parade as it has in years past on the country’s Independence Day, August 24. Instead, the president said in a video address posted to Facebook on July 9, the 300 million hrv ($11.7 million U.S.) typically used to showcase the country’s firepower and armed forces will be allocated to servicemen as bonuses. “It’s so pompous and definitely not cheap,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in his announcement. “It’s better to allocate this money to our heroes.”