Russia's annual Victory Day parade is ordinarily an impressive show of military might. This year, a lone vintage tank rattled through the Red Square.
Russia said the scaling-back was due to security concernsThe parade marks the anniversary of the Nazi surrender in World War II
Typically, a procession of modern tanks, like the 2018 T-14 Armata tank display, is a key moment in the parade. / This year, just the one Soviet-era T-34 tank introduced the vehicular segment. Even the procession in 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, featured some 13,000 soldiers, and last year, two months into the war in Ukraine, 11,000 troops took part.
Those wishing to commemorate their relatives were invited to instead place photos of war veterans in car windows, wear clothing with a photo printed on it, or change their social media profile pictures.
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