Posted on 04/11/2023 9:14:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Governors of two Russian regions have cited security concerns in scrapping military parades next month, although one theory suggested the cancelation was due to a lack of military equipment caused by the war in Ukraine.
Victory Day parades on May 9 are held throughout Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union to commemorate the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, which is widely known as the Great Patriotic War.
The most prominent event takes place in Moscow's Red Square in which a march past of troops and military equipment provides a colorful display of Russian military might, rendered more significant given the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
But the war has prompted the governors of Kursk and Belgorod oblasts, which border Ukraine, to scrap their own events marking a military victory that Vladimir Putin has used as a reference point for his own unjustified invasion.
Kursk governor Roman Starovoyt said that there would be no parade in the regional capital of the same name "for security reasons," the news outlet RBC reported.
Meanwhile, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod Oblast, said that the parade "would also not be held in order not to provoke the enemy with a large number of vehicles and soldiers" in the center of the regional capital, Russian Telegram channel ASTRA reported.
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May?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/pentagon-leaks-us-intelligence-expects-modest-results-from-ukrainian-spring-offensive-russians-welcome-the-chance-to-tackle-kievs-forces-out-in-the-open/
“Labeled ‘top secret,’ the bleak assessment from early February warns of significant ‘force generation and sustainment shortfalls,’ and the likelihood that such an operation will result in only ‘modest territorial gains.’ It’s a marked departure from the Biden administration’s public statements about the vitality of Ukraine’s military and is likely to embolden critics who feel the United States and NATO should do more to push for a negotiated settlement to the conflict.
[…] It has revealed, for instance, where American officials have detected critical weaknesses in Ukraine’s air defenses and access to ammunition while exposing considerable deficiencies within the Russian military, too. Many of the assessments date to February and March.
Tell your Putin to cancel the Holy Lake mosque.
Or they don’t want you to know what they have.
Even some people deep inside the Pentagon are sick of the nonstop lies propping up Ukraine to the point they are leaking classified documents destroying the Biden Narrative.
Russia is an embarrassment. How ridiculous to think they want to be a world power.
Now you are posting articles based on possible theories and acting like they are absolutely true.
Putin’s Russia is the dead cat bounce of the Soviet Union.
Welcome new Pootie Troll. Hope you don’t last longer than some of your previous ilk.
Specify.
So where are all these snappy dressed, smart marching Russian troops?
What, they just stomp up and down Red Square?
Putin sucks too. I’m just not a neo-Con Chickenhawk like some warmongers in the GOP. It’s all one big money-laundering scheme and you seem to suppport it as tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens die without being allowed to negotiate for peace by Loser Joe Biden the Con Man.
Why do you support Biden and the MIC donors gettin rich off of your taxes … if you even work to pay taxes?
There! Fixed it!
Regards,
I remember when the USA was a world power. That all ended when the Dems cheated to elect a CCP-controlled Biden and the right whined on the internet about it and instead prop up this Biden regime and cronies enriching themselves off of lies in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Chickenhawk Biden’s military leadership announce all plans on arming Ukraine in advance of dong so for reasons that can only be considered as letting Putin know their plans.
The Pentagon leak in many ways contradicts the Biden/MIC media’s narrative. I generally go by the worldview that of Joe Biden and Mitt Romney agree on something, taking the opposing side is a safe bet.
Russia is a free country!
No, you have it ass backward — Ukraine is the dead cat bounce of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
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