❗️ LIVE: Victory Day military parade leads off in Moscow

Sputnik comes to you live as the Russian capital’s Red Square is hosting its annual Victory Day parade dedicated to the 79th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 — part of WWII.

President Vladimir Putin attends the famous military event displaying the country’s fierce military branches, historic equipment, as well as most advanced Russian weapons.

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📷 Employees of the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN held an action in honor of the 79th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War – windows were lit up in the form of the number 79 in the mission's residential complex in New York City.

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❗️ Traditional Victory Day military parade has started on Red Square in Moscow

📸 Photo of the participants of the special military operation, who will march in parade formation on Red Square today.

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❄️ This year's parade is accompanied by snowfall

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🇷🇺 Russian President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin, watching the Victory Day parade on the Red Square rostrum next to Great Patriotic War veterans Alexandra Alyoshina, who participated in the defense of Moscow, and Yevgeny Kuropatkov, who fought in Stalingrad and near Leningrad.

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❗️ Vladimir Putin's statement from his speech at Victory Parade in Moscow:

▪️ The truth about World War II is being distorted as it hinders those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies;

▪️ Our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers defended their native land, crushed Nazism, and liberated the peoples of Europe;

▪️ Revanchism and mockery of history, and justification of Nazism is part of the general policy of the Western elites.

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❗️ Russia now going through difficult, milestone period, fate of our country and its future depends on each of us, Vladimir Putin said.

❗️More statements from Vladimir Putin at the Victory Day Parade in Moscow:

▪️ Our strategic forces are always on alert

▪️ Russia rejects claims of exclusivity by any state or alliance

▪️ Russia will do everything to prevent a global clash and will not allow itself to be threatened.

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📹 Revanchism and mockery of history, and justification of Nazism is part of the general policy of the Western elites, Vladimir Putin said.

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🪖 Participants of the special operation marched across Red Square. Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Khabarov is leading the formation; there are seven heroes of Russia and 24 holders of the Order of Courage.

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📹 Members of Russia’s “Young Army” movement are taking part in the Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square

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🎖 More veterans of the special military operation marching through Red Square

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📹 Women members of the armed forces took part in the parade

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📹 T-34 parade formations began to move along Red Square

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