Ukrainians started celebrating Independence Day after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Troops marked the occasion with their first raid into Crimea, the Black Sea region annexed by Russian forces nine years ago.
Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from the capital Kyiv.
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