Russia’s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow this year featured thousands fewer soldiers and no advanced tanks, with its army bogged down in Ukraine.
Just one tank rolled through Moscow’s Red Square for Russia’s Victory Day parade, an annual event Russia typically uses to show off its military might.
Before Tuesday’s celebrations kicked off, Russia had already cancelled or scaled back its typical celebrations across the country, which mark Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Experts said that Russia was trying to conceal how its military had been degraded by its invasion of Ukraine.
Tuesday’s military parade in Moscow did not include an air display or any military jets over the capital city.
It was also missing any modern advanced tanks, the BBC and the New York Times reported.
In fact, multiple reports said that just one tank — a T-34, which Russia first used in World War II — was in the parade.
