Thousands of military personnel take part in the parade each year, which remains one of the most important days in Russia’s calendar.
Russia wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry on Thursday for Victory Day, a celebration of its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II that President Vladimir Putin has turned into a pillar of his nearly quarter-century in power and a justification for his move into Ukraine.
Amid Russia-West tensions that have soared to the highest level since the Cold War times over Ukraine, Mr Putin also issued another stark reminder about Russia’s nuclear might. Since coming to power on the last day of 1999, Mr Putin has made May 9 an important part of his political agenda, featuring displays of military might.
Victory Day demonstrations were suspended during the pandemic and amid security concerns following the war in Ukraine Putin cited the ‘denazification’ of Ukraine as a main goal of Moscow, falsely describing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust, as neo-Nazis
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