For the first time in years, no armoured vehicles or ballistic missiles featured in Moscow’s Victory Day parade.<\/p>\n
But under tightened security, military personnel marched in droves across Red Square.<\/p>\n
Addressing the crowd, Putin started his speech by commemorating the sacrifices of USSR soldiers during World War Two. <\/p>\n
“The great feat of the generation of victors inspires the soldiers carrying out the goals of the special military operation today,” he said, referring to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“They are confronting an aggressive force armed and supported by the whole bloc of Nato. And despite this, our heroes move forward.”<\/p>\n
The Russian leader went on to celebrate the citizens of Russia, making reference to the contributions of workers to its war effort, including scientists, inventors, military correspondents, doctors and teachers.<\/p>\n
“No matter how military tactics change, the future of the country is being provided for by the people,” he said.<\/p>\n
Immediately after the speech, cannons fired successive rounds before music was played by a military brass band.<\/p>\n
Behind Putin was Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n
Also in attendance at the event were Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysia’s King, Sultan Ibrahim, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.<\/p>\n
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was also pictured meeting Putin at the Kremlin ahead of the parade.<\/p>\n
Markedly fewer world leaders turned up compared to last year’s 80th anniversary parade, which featured 27 leaders including China’s President Xi Jinping and Brazil’s Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n
Russian TV viewers were also shown a broadcast of soldiers on the front lines after Putin’s speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in years, no armoured vehicles or ballistic missiles featured in Moscow’s Victory Day parade.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-574528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}