For the first time in nearly two decades, no military hardware 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 and Malaysia’s King, Sultan Ibrahim.<\/p>\n
Markedly fewer world leaders turned up compared to last year’s 80th anniversary parade, which included 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 nearly two decades, no military hardware featured in Moscow’s Victory Day parade. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-947964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116543808944461050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}