Bastille Day 2022: France pays homage to its eastern European allies and Ukraine

France celebrated its national day on July 14, 2022 with a military parade where thousands of French troops joined their eastern European allies on parade down the famed Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris followed by fireworks later in the evening. Foreign troops from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary were assigned the front position in the parade, followed by multinational forces deployed in Romania. The traditional Bastille Day events…