TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - France on Wednesday is celebrating Bastille Day with a special show of solidarity with Ukraine.
A massive parade is being held in Paris in front of French President Emmanuel Macron and other high-level guests in Paris. The event features European troops and warplanes from the "Coalition of the Willing" in support of Ukraine, which has been fending off Russia's ongoing invasion.
French fighter jets flew over the Champs Elysees avenue with trails of the French national colors of blue, white and red behind them.
It is Macron's last Bastille Day as president. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is attending the celebrations as a special guest. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are also attending.
The holiday comes as France has grappled with multiple deadly heatwaves this year, with forest fires occurring south of Paris near Fontainebleau and in other parts of the country.
Bastille Day, which is known as la fete nationale francaise, is marked on the 14 of July each year, to remember the storming of the the Bastille in 1789. The Bastille is a medieval fortress and prison, and the storming of the royal facility was a key moment during the French Revolution.
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