The parade would fall on 'Victory Day,' Russia's largest public holiday held every year on May 9 to celebrate triumph over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
The Russian military is clearing dead bodies and is planning a"Victory Day parade" in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol to celebrate taking control of it, Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the city's mayor, has claimed on Telegram.
He said that Kostyantyn Ivashchenko, who is directing Russian forces in Mariupol, was ordered to"clear a part of the city's central district of rubble and dead bodies to ensure that a parade can be held on 9 May."
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