The annual Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées featured 6,500 soldiers, over 300 vehicles, and 500 troops from the Coalition of the Willing, including 25 Ukrainian soldiers and German units. The event began at 10:00 a.m. local time and was attended by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is in its fifth year.