This year, Russia’s annual Victory Day parade marks 70 years since Allied and Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in world war two.
But as well as being a landmark anniversary, likely the last Russia’s war veterans will be alive for, is significant for two reasons. The Armata T-14, the first tank Russia has designed since the fall of the Soviet Union, made its highly-anticipated public debut and few world leaders were around to see it.
After more than a year of tensions over the ongoing situation in Eastern Ukraine, many Western leaders skipped the parade, held in Moscow’s Red Square. Only …read more
Source: Newsweek
