– The staging was to show power, but on the front you can see a tedious war for destruction. The parade masked deficiencies rather than demonstrated the actual military force – says Marcel Berni, a military expert at the Federal University of Technology in Zurich.
The “glow” of the parade sharply contrasts with the military results of the Russians in Ukraine. A closer look at the “Victory Day” show on the Nazis shows that 80 years after World War II and three years after the invasion of Ukraine Russia is not at all where Putin would like to see her – and Putin's tank parade is only a pompous masquerade.
After Friday's military parade in Moscow, it can be said with certainty that many things that the Russian leader tried to convince his guests on Czerwony Square simply do not cover in reality.
Let's start with the guest list. Only the leaders of Venezuela, Brazil, Serbia and Slovakia appeared from the western hemisphere. Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico and President Serbia Aleksandar Vucić had to fly to Moscow on a circular road, because Poland and the Baltic States refused them to fly.
However, the Chinese leader XI Jinping significantly more attractive Putin's guest list. The more that he allowed the Chinese delegation of soldiers to participate in the military parade. Thanks to this clear tongue on one of the sides of China ultimately lose their credibility as a mediator in the war in Ukraine.
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Chinese leader XI Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the military parade in Moscow, May 9, 2025.
Armaments systems presented on it were the second weak point of the Russian parade. In addition to the endless columns of Russian regiments, Putin allowed him to travel in front of the honorary tribune tanks, artillery vehicles, intercontinental rockets and drones. However, there were no new models of Russian tanks on the park. It was also missing The “Oresznik” hypersonic rocket, famous by the propaganda.
The whole weapon on the front
The parade was mainly lacking in armored personnel carriers. Russian soldiers on the front are increasingly transported by the death zones in civilian cars. Japanese analysts of satellite photos have also found that Russia sets dummy of anti -aircraft defense systems in the east of the country, because all real systems are urgently needed in the West.
When Putin, whose conscience has hundreds of thousands of killed and millions of lost families, fantasize about his “fight for humanism and justice”, you can only stop listening.
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Zelanski refutes Putin's arguments
The contribution of the Soviet Union in defeating the Nazis (which was also attended by, among others, the Ukrainian nation) is praiseworthy. Putin, however, abuses history to justify his actions.
– the Kremlin uses the myth of the victim of the great native war [tak Rosjanie nazywają II wojnę światową]to present the war with Ukraine as a struggle for survival – says Gulnaz Partschefeld, a lecturer at the history of Russia's culture at the University of St. Gallen.
Veterans of World War II live only a few dozen. That is why the Kremlin mobilized the veterans of the war in Ukraine to participate in the parade.
“In this way, the continuity of the fight with allegedly still existing fascism in Ukraine is constructed,” adds Partschefeld.
Wołodymyr Zelanski gave his own speech on the 80th anniversary of the Capitulation of the Nazis (Ukraine and Europe celebrate this event on May 8).
The President of Ukraine filmed during a walk along the Chreszczatyk, the main Kiev Street, where burned Russian tanks were set up three years ago. Zelanski condemned “marching murderers” in Moscow and thanked the story that “Ukraine escaped from this swamp.”
– Evil cannot be calmed down. You have to fight him – said the Ukrainian president.
Zełnski does it with his army. Not during the parade in Kiev, but on the front of the fight against Putin's army – without television cameras and marching music.
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