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Watch as Poland celebrated Armed Forces Day with a military parade on Tuesday 15 August.
More than 2000 soldiers and hundreds of tanks, fighter jets and other military vehicles paraded through Warsaw for the annual event that commemorates Poland’s victory over the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1920.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made boosting the armed forces a priority for the country’s ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS), and with the election campaign in full swing, the immense display of military hardware provides a chance to burnish their security credentials.
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