Russia will celebrate victory over Nazi Germany next month with a military parade on Moscow’s Red Square, but without military equipment on display in view of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said late Tuesday.
The parade, traditionally held on May 9, the day the Soviet Union signed its surrender to Germany, would this year mark the 81st anniversary of victory in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War.
One of the main holidays on the Russian calendar, it allows a dwindling number of veterans to gather in the streets with medals on display and is accompanied by an outpouring of emotion shown by documentaries, documentaries and wartime music.
But this year, the ministry said, no military equipment will pass through the field.
“Soldiers from all types of higher military educational institutions and individual branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will take part in the parade as part of the procession,” the statement said.
The statement said that representatives of certain educational institutions will not participate “and neither will the array of military equipment participate in the military parade due to the current operational situation”.
