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(KPL/TASS) A military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory took place on Moscow’s Red Square.
(KPL/TASS) A military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory took place on Moscow’s Red Square.
The parade began with a march of the banner group of the Preobrazhensky Regiment Honor Guard’s unit carrying the Russian national flag and the legendary Victory Banner across Red Square. The Victory Banner was hoisted over the Reichstag by soldiers of the 150th Idritskaya Rifle Division in May 1945.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, war veterans, guests and foreign leaders watched the parade from the central reviewing stand on Red Square. Defense Minister Andrey Belousov reviewed the parade, which was commanded by Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief General of the Army Oleg Salyukov.
The Victory Day Parade on Moscow’s Red Square was attended by leaders of 27 foreign states, among them China’s President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Ethiopian President Taye Atske Selassie, President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo and other foreign dignitaries.
Last year, Russia’s Victory Day Parade on Moscow’s Red Square involved over 9,000 troops, 61 weapons systems and 15 combat aircraft. This year, parade units from 13 countries took part in the military parade on Moscow’s Red Square. The military contingents from CIS states included parade units from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Troops from friendly states comprised parade units from Vietnam, Egypt, China, Laos, Mongolia and Myanmar.
This year, the military parade on Moscow’s Red Square involved over 11,000 troops, including 1,500 combatants of the special military operation and 183 WWII and advanced weapons systems.
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