Putin issues new threat to West on Victory Day in Moscow: We will not allow anyone to threaten us. Our strategic forces are always combat ready'

For Russian society, Victory Day has become a reminder of the stalemate of its special military operation in Ukraine.

Russia is now going through a difficult, milestone period, the fate of the Motherland, its future, depends on each of us, Putin told his troops from the pulpit.

Very few people came out to view the march of vehicles through the center of the capital, where the authorities suspended the parade of the so-called Immortal Regiment.

On this occasion, however, the only armored vehicle crossing Red Square was an old World War II T-34 tank, followed by some six dozen vehicles, mostly armored transports and missile launcher systems.

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