Vladimir Putin has led Russia’s Victory Day commemorations with a parade in Pink Sq., amid heightened safety following Ukrainian strikes on Moscow.
China’s Xi Jinping joined the Russian president as he advised hundreds of troopers that Russia remembered the teachings of World Battle Two.
He additionally used his speech to tie the struggle to as we speak’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and mentioned all of Russia was behind what he referred to as the “particular navy operation” – now properly into its fourth 12 months.
BBC Monitoring’s Russia Editor Vitaly Shevchenko displays on the day’s occasions.
