Moscow — President Vladimir Putin reviewed Russia’s traditional World War 2 victory parade on Sunday, a patriotic display of raw military power that this year coincides with rising tensions with the West.
The parade on Moscow’s Red Square commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War 2 featured 12,000 troops and 190 pieces of military hardware, including intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, and a fly-past by 80 military aircraft under cloudy skies...
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