Posted on 05/03/2023 10:22:10 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
At least six Russian regions have scrapped 9 May Victory Day parades that mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany amid fears over Ukrainian strikes, with a region 400 miles from the border being the latest to cancel.
The governor of Saratov announced the parade there would not go ahead because of “safety concerns”, adding to a string of cancellations that are a glaring admission of the country’s military vulnerability more than 14 months into the war.
Earlier, heads of Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Oryol, and Pskov region, as well as the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, similarly cancelled their annual military parades.
“There won’t be a parade in order to not provoke the enemy with large numbers of equipment and service members in central Belgorod,” the regions’ head Vyacheslav Gladkov said last month.
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Getting drunk as usual.
Makes sense
The Russians don’t have enough military equipment and tanks left to stage a bunch of parades. Just wait until Ukraine gets F-16s The Kerch bridge and what is left of the Black Sea fleet will all be new reefs.
Long before “Vlad's Excellent Ukrainian Adventure'' began it was standard practice to drive the big missile launching vehicles around Red Square a couple of times changing the number on the things, and getting some other Ivan to drive them so it appeared as if they had more than they actually did. With the Russians despite what they say they have if you don't see it, they ain't got it.
“Just wait until Ukraine gets F-16s The Kerch bridge and what is left of the Black Sea fleet will all be new reefs.”
May it be so!
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