Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have marched dozens of captured government soldiers through the city of Donetsk.
The incident came as Ukraine said it would spend $3bn (£1.8bn) on re-equipping the army to fight the rebels.
President Petro Poroshenko made the announcement ahead of a military parade to mark Independence Day in Kiev.
More than 2,000 people have died in recent months in fighting between government forces and the separatists.
Some 330,000 have fled their homes because of the unrest in eastern Ukraine.
The violence erupted when pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared independence from Kiev, after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March.
The incident came as Ukraine said it would spend $3bn (£1.8bn) on re-equipping the army to fight the rebels.
President Petro Poroshenko made the announcement ahead of a military parade to mark Independence Day in Kiev.
More than 2,000 people have died in recent months in fighting between government forces and the separatists.
Some 330,000 have fled their homes because of the unrest in eastern Ukraine.
The violence erupted when pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared independence from Kiev, after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in March.
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