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 the Second World War that President Vladimir Putin has turned into a pillar of his nearly quarter of a century in power and a justification for his move into Ukraine.
As battalions marched by and military hardware – both old and new – rumbled over the cobblestones, the sky cleared briefly to allow a flyby of warplanes, some of which trailed smoke in the white, red and blue of the Russian flag. Russian Air Force Su-25 jets fly over Red Square leaving trails of smoke in the colours of the national flag
As Mr Putin tells it, his father, also named Vladimir, came home from a military hospital during the war to see workers trying to take away his wife, Maria, who had been declared dead of starvation. 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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