Military parade to gather 3,000 members of Serbian Army

BELGRADE - The military parade to mark 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade in World War II will be held in front of the Palace of Serbia and on the Danube River, gathering around 3,000 members of the Serbian Armed Forces and Defence Ministry.

A parade of units accompanied by tanks, APCs, planes and helicopters of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia will be staged at the plateau in front of the Palace of Serbia, while ships and boats of the River Flotilla would sail down the Danube.

The parade is organised by the Defence Ministry and the Serbian Army as envisaged in the decision of the Serbian president. At the instruction issued by the defence minister, the commander of the parade will be Chief of the General Staff of Serbian Armed Forces General Ljubisa Dikovic.

The military parade will be organised in Serbia for the first time since 1985, and it will include over 300 different mobile armament units and military equipment, spokesman of the Defence Ministry and the Serbian Army Jovan Krivokapic told
Tanjug on Monday.

He noted that the military parade would open by the honorary artillery salute, while the central part of the ceremony would comprise the parade of the Serbian Army units.

According to Krivokapic, the parade will consist of infantry, motorized and aviation echelons, while the ships of the River Flotilla would sail down the Danube River from the Kalemegdan Fortress to Gardos in Zemun.

The visitors will be able to see the flags of units that took part in the liberation of Belgrade in World War II, regimental flags from World War I and current flags of the Serbian Army.

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