Pro-Russian separatists have marched dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers through the streets of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.<br /><br />Hundreds of people lined the street, many calling the soldiers fascists and murderers.<br /><br />Previously the Kyiv government had promised Ukrainian soldiers would hold Independence day parades in Donetsk on Sunday, assuming they would by then have taken the city from the rebels.<br /><br />So the rebels say they are merely fulfilling Kyiv’s words and also celebrating their own independence as a region.<br /><br />The event was also meant to recreate the forced march of nearly 60,000 German Nazi soldiers through the streets of Moscow in 1944 towards the end of World War Two.<br /><br />On display in Lenin Square in the city were around 10 Ukrainian army vehicles which had been destroyed by rebels.
