![]() Newsweek has contacted Russia's Defense Ministry via email for comment. is very significant and let us hope, Russia is about to crack on this war," Sumlenny added. "They want to sell a narrative 'we don't want to invest into a show when our army is fighting hard'.but this means that the Kremlin is concerned by the fact that they know the population is unhappy with high price of war," he said. Sumlenny said he sees some logic behind having a pared-back military parade in Moscow this year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied any involvement, saying his country didn't possess weapons capable of such strikes. Last week, the Russian government accused Ukraine of carrying out a "planned terrorist act" and an attempt on Putin's life, saying two Ukrainian drones had crashed into the leader's Kremlin residence in Moscow. Russia held its Victory Day military parade on Monday to mark the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Prigozhin reveals rows of dead Wagner troops, curses Russian army leaders.Nuclear missile launcher crashes in Russia while driving towards parade.Ukraine claims Russians are evacuating occupied areas."It will be certainly discussed among the people," he said. Sumlenny said this was "a self-humiliation" for the Russians. "They did have a very different thing after all: a wheeled-cars parade, with the only one tank, the shortest of all (11 minutes)." "They could have found a dozen of tanks and artillery pieces," he said. Sumlenny said he believed Russia would either organize a low-scale parade, but still with some equipment, or cancel it out of "security concerns." "This parade was astonishingly low-level, and this is its significance," Sergej Sumlenny, an Eastern Europe expert, told Newsweek. Tuesday's Victory Day parade was pared back compared to 2022's event, which came over two months into the war and was also considerably curtailed in contrast to previous years. The traditional airborne part of the Victory Day Parade was also canceled. The parade saw Yars, S-400 and Iskander-M missile systems pass through the Red Square, where thousands of people were in attendance. GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images ![]() Russia celebrates the 78th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher rolls through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2023.
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