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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Send over some of Patton’s lightweight tanks.
May have? Just who was it gave them permission?
... if you even work to pay taxes?
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There you go with the standard personal attack so favored by you lot and so against the FR code of conduct. Keep that up and expand your attacks will gain you a well earned zot.
How is that an attack? I don’t like tens of billions of taxpayer money that I contribute to being funneled to the 1% via this Ukraine Hustle. You first insulted me by calling me a “Pootie Troll” anyhow.
Remember Mathias Rust?
The 18 year old German kid who landed a Cessna 172s in Red Square on May 28, 1987.
Man that took some cajones.
Really made the Russkies look stupid.
Reports that Putin has chickened out of attending his May 9th “victory parade” in Moscow and will instead attend a parade in Vladivostok instead. LOL!
Tell your Putin to be a man and show up for his “victory parade” in Moscow on May 9!
Weren’t the Russian and Wagner group atrocities in Bucha, Irpin, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, etc. horrible? What they did to that Golden Retriever upon fleeing Bucha when they were kicked out did it for me. The poor owner of that thing, and those absolute Soviet monsters.
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