BASTILLE DAY PARADE LIVE | Macron & Zelenskyy Lead Historic Paris Military March; Watch Live Updates

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PARIS — Thousands have lined the iconic Champs-Élysées Avenue in central Paris for France's traditional July 14 Bastille Day military parade, marking a highly symbolic and geopolitically charged National Day. Presiding over his tenth and final parade as President, Emmanuel Macron is joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. This year's parade, themed 'Strategic Awakening of Europe,' features nearly 10,000 service members—a massive increase reflecting the heightened security climate across the continent. In a historic first, the march is led by a 500-soldier detachment from the newly operational 37-nation 'Coalition of the Willing,' demonstrating robust security guarantees and transatlantic unity. The parade, starting from the Arc de Triomphe and moving down to the Place de la Concorde, also showcases a dramatic aerial flypast, including Mirage 2000 fighter jets painted in U

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