Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun presiding over a pared-back Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square, after a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect.

For the first time in nearly two decades, there will be no military hardware, just soldiers during Saturday's parade in Moscow.

Kyiv berates Moscow’s request for ceasefire while launching ‘missile and drone strikes every single day leading up to it’ ...

I've attended many Victory Day parades on Red Square. This year's version felt very different. In previous years I've had to sprint from the media bus that normally parks up by St Basils' Cathedral, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Saturday, May 9, 2026, during celebrations of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany ...

On Saturday, May 9, the annual parade in honor of the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be held on Red Square in Moscow. What time it starts, where to watch, and what will ...

On May 9th, Russia held its iconic annual Victory Day parade to honour the sacrifices of its soldiers and civilians during its four-year war against Nazi Germany. When the president, Vladimir Putin, ...

Trump hailed a cease-fire between the two sides ahead of the parade, as Zelensky issued an apparently tongue-in-cheek decree permitting the event.

There will be no neat rows of tanks and ballistic missile carriers rolling down the smooth cobbles of Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, as Russia scales back what is usually a grand militaristic Victor ...

Russian attacks killed more than 20 people across Ukraine on Tuesday, including 12 in one of the deadliest strikes this year, hours before the midnight start of an open-ended ceasefire proposed by ...

In Moscow, a scaled-down Victory Day parade was held under tight security, without military hardware, amid fears of possible Ukrainian drone attacks. The Russian president denounced NATO in his speech ...

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is among only a handful of global leaders due ​to attend a scaled-back edition of ...