TOPSHOTS ? woman holds the hand of her sick friend in the basement of Kalinina hospital after shelling on August 24, 2014 in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine paraded dozens of captured soldiers before a jeering crowd on August 24 in a bid to mock Kiev's Independence Day celebrations. In the capital, the Ukrainian government had sought to boost morale and send a defiant message to the rebels with an upbeat military parade to mark the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF