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Moscow shuts down airports and mobile signals as Victory Day parade looms | Russia

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Moscow shuts down airports and mobile signals as Victory Day parade looms
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Moscow shuts down airports and mobile signals as Victory Day parade looms
Kremlin tightens security before Russia’s biggest national celebration on 9 May amid fears of Ukrainian drone strikes

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Top_Action_6095 May 5, 2026 +1546
Nothing says victory like locking everything up.
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Idiot_Savant_13 May 5, 2026 +294
Is "Walking On Eggshells" the new parade song?
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Ritaredditonce May 5, 2026 +35
Get ready for the big time. Tap dancing on a land mine.
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diddy1 May 6, 2026 +7
Do the Drone Waltz
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Iampepeu May 5, 2026 +66
I have no idea what song that is. But I read/sang it like *I'm Walking on Sunshine, woah-oh*!
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Idiot_Savant_13 May 5, 2026 +18
Brilliant! I can't unhear it now... 😂😂
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potatodrinker May 5, 2026 +11
I held up a blank sheet Oooh no... And now I'm in GULAG Bam bam bam bam
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Kataphractoi May 5, 2026 +2
Dammit, beat me to it.
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viper_in_the_grass May 5, 2026 +2
Same here :p
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C4dfael May 5, 2026 +17
“I’m walkin’ on eggshells, whoaohOHoh And don’t it feel good!”
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Idiot_Savant_13 May 5, 2026 +5
Y'all are killin' me, I can't unhear it now... 😂😂
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SithPickles2020 May 5, 2026 +5
I cannot remember if in previous years they 'locked down' so such an extent. If not, definitely a sign of the shifting forces.
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Sa1KoRo May 5, 2026 +3
This. So this.
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No-Introduction1495 May 5, 2026 +735
Come on Ukraine do the funny
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Silver_Middle_7240 May 5, 2026 +469
Send a drone over but it just scatters blue and yellow streamers
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TotalBismuth May 5, 2026 +206
This would be the best move. Hitting their parade would cause them to do something stupid in return, but this would just scare them.
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MentalDisintegrat1on May 5, 2026 +116
Nah best thing is to threaten to blow up the parade but blow up other important infrastructure because saying they would bomb the parade would make Putin push for a ton of extra security and resources. Word is Putin is going to be running and hiding in his bunker soon he's scared of his own men and the Rich.
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StormWhich5629 May 5, 2026 +70
Stupider than invading them 4 years ago?
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hoggytime613 May 5, 2026 +93
\*12 years ago
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StormWhich5629 May 5, 2026 +21
Fair 
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Mewhomewhy May 5, 2026 +15
Only a moron is still spouting that bullshit.
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[deleted] May 5, 2026 +1
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National-Charity-435 May 5, 2026 +6
\*incoherent slurring from medvedev\*
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Wurm42 May 5, 2026 +34
Agreed. Remember that an awful lot of Russian elites will also attend the Victory Day parade. Confetti or some other non-violent stunt will make Putin look hella weak. They'll laugh at him. It will hurt Putin's political standing enormously. But if those elites are attacked at the parade, will they be mad at Putin, or will they support him to get revenge on Ukraine? A stunt that embarrasses Putin may be the safer option.
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Noseknowledge May 6, 2026 +10
We're years past peaceful safe protest those people have been already been gulaged, like Navalny. Russia is on the ropes, great time to make their ancestors reconsider ever being an aggressor again. Logic hasnt worked on that country, so let them understand the only way they really seem to with a little up and personal exposure. I see your point I just think we're beyond peaceful resolution until Russians delete Putin from existance themselves. I look forward to Russia maybe as a democracy in the future, I just don't know if they have it in them the will of the people has to be there and this could all be over overnight. Its truly sad how we can exist in a world with more than enough for everyone yet we continue to hurt each other so deeply often through indifference to act
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wet_lettuce_ua May 5, 2026 +48
In 24 hours russians killed: - ​7 people in Merefa (just outside Kharkiv) yesterday, - ​5 people in Poltava today (double tap targeted and killed firefighters) - ​5 people in Kramatorsk - ​12 people in Zaporizhzhia - ​4 people in Dnipro just now All of these numbers still may update But yeah, I’m happy it’s a funny show for privileged westerners.
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rabbitholeseverywher May 6, 2026 +11
>I’m happy it’s a funny show for privileged westerners. It's not, and I speak as a relatively privileged westerner. The Russian targeting of civilians is brutal and disgusting and I 100% support Ukraine in their fight.
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Sxualhrssmntpanda May 5, 2026 +14
Damn, that's crazy. Maybe somebody should do something about that.
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wet_lettuce_ua May 5, 2026 -13
How to tell you dgaf without telling you dgaf
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Sxualhrssmntpanda May 5, 2026 +18
Most Russians have proven not to care about Putin's expansionist wars unless it affects them directly. We can only hope his crimes affecting Russians directly causes enough change for them to stop invading and slaughtering innocents in neighbouring countries. If you ask me the best choice is nobody has to die anymore for Putler's warcrimes. The second best choice is that it's not other countries' people who have to do so.
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wet_lettuce_ua May 5, 2026 +7
The crimes aren’t committed by putin. They are committed by regular russians. 1% of russian population is already dead, approximately the same amount is currently on the frontlines or getting prepared for it. Unknown huge amount is directly involved in russian war crimes by kidnapping and forcefully transferring ukrainian children, covering russian war crimes and pouring concrete on the mass graves, supporting genocide of ukrainians morally and materially. About 86% of russian population fully supports russian invasion in Ukraine (by independent non-govt polls). And the only thing that russian do care for, and which they want to bravely withstand on meetings is the blocking of Telegram.
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Bagel_Sparrow6 May 6, 2026 +2
Thats bullshit, people cant really answer a poll under such terror regime. Opressed peoples arent represented by their opressive regime, otherwise we should blame americans and brits and other democracies over so many bullshit
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wet_lettuce_ua May 6, 2026 +4
Russians are not oppressed. They willingly go and kill, and kidnap, and r***, and destroy.
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Ecstatic-Discount-37 May 5, 2026 +8
Thats not what he said tho
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wet_lettuce_ua May 5, 2026 +3
Because we’re talking genocidal war here, with war crimes russians commit on a daily basis, and people suggest “scatter a yellow and blue glitters over moscow”.
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HumanBeing7396 May 5, 2026 +11
They are saying that it would be a worthwhile thing to do, because it would undermine Putin’s propaganda and make him look weak.
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wet_lettuce_ua May 5, 2026 +1
Yours is unbombed opinion. That’s not putin’s regime or propaganda building, programming and launching missiles at the centers of our cities. That’s all commited by fully aware and conscious russians.
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HumanBeing7396 May 5, 2026 +8
Nobody in the West has forgotten that - although we should definitely be doing more to support Ukraine. All I’m saying is that propaganda and perception also matter. Putin is a mafia boss, and any action that makes him look weak - whether military, economic or purely symbolic - helps to endanger his rule.
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Efficiency_Clown May 5, 2026 +1
It could cause a rally around the flag effect too.
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GardeniaFrangipani May 5, 2026 +22
How about a flyover trailing blue and yellow smoke?
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Silver_Middle_7240 May 5, 2026 +4
Well i was thinking that the streamers would have to be cleaned up before they could make propaganda
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GardeniaFrangipani May 6, 2026 +1
Oh yes!
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CanadianJogger May 5, 2026 +5
Blue and yellow paintballs.
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mrdevil413 May 6, 2026 +2
Or just repeatedly says “hey Russian warship” over and over
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Hewfe May 6, 2026 +1
A little flag pops out that says “pow”
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HorrificAnalInjuries May 6, 2026 +1
Cuts down the Russian flag that flies over the white house, and deploys a Ukrainian one while blaring the Ukrainian anthem
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AdPure5645 May 6, 2026 +1
Hit the kremo
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Wurm42 May 5, 2026 +40
My bet is that Ukraine will attack other parts of Russia on Saturday, since Putin has taken so much anti-aircraft equipment from the border and other sensitive areas to bolster Moscow's defenses. But wow, it would be so cool if there was a truck already sitting in Moscow, full of little drones with blue and yellow confetti cannons.
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CanadianJogger May 5, 2026 +10
Or paint balls. Let rich, Moscow Ivan go home and wash it off and think about how it could be his blood, if Ukraine wished it.
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DisastrousAcshin May 5, 2026 +14
I think we'll see if Moscow respects Ukraine's announced ceasefire
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Dardlem May 5, 2026 +35
They just broke it. Dnipro is being attacked by UAVs atm.
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octopornopus May 5, 2026 +5
[Blue and yellow dildrones, like that chess guy got...](https://youtu.be/G3Lf9NujFSg?si=A9U810IcswkQxEuT)
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CrewMemberNumber6 May 5, 2026 +105
Victory Day* **Some restrictions apply*
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Harry_The-Bastard May 6, 2026 +10
*See your Dictator or Oligarchy if symptoms persist*
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agha0013 May 5, 2026 +180
don't want people filming what a sad affair the parade will be? Is puttler himself going to be in attendance or is he still hiding out from supposed assassins?
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Entire_Train7307 May 5, 2026 +86
He will send his double
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totallyRebb May 6, 2026 +2
They probably have a basement full of blow-up Putins somewhere.
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MickyCrazy May 5, 2026 +13
No. putain will show himself by video.
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lorkanooo May 5, 2026 +10
Yeah, we all know that shutting down mobile signal automatically stops all cameras from working 
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Free-Way-9220 May 5, 2026 +131
They're looking more like North Korea every day
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LordWilburFussypants May 5, 2026 +78
At least North Korea has military hardware at their parades, even if the missiles do wobble a bit.
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ThaCapten May 5, 2026 +25
Paper-mache tends to do that.
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auchinleck917 May 6, 2026 +1
Well, South Korea and the US aren't planning to blow up North Korea during their parade.
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Exende May 5, 2026 +37
Nothing says Victory like having no internet and not being able to travel
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frasoftw May 6, 2026 +9
That's crazy, somehow Iran is "winning" using the same tactics.
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P01135809-Trump May 6, 2026 +5
In some wars there are no real winners. Just two loosers.
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Psychostickusername May 6, 2026 +1
Like coming in dead last and standing near the podium with a can of special brew
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No_Conversation_9325 May 5, 2026 +24
The only need to shut down their fuckign KGB rule
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HMJebus May 5, 2026 +61
What a sad, strange little country.
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Bleatmop May 5, 2026 +23
Little?
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panorambo May 5, 2026 +20
Little Big Country
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_RADIANTSUN_ May 6, 2026 +3
Little Big пла-нет
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Koala_eiO May 6, 2026 +6
It's a country that goes from Ukraine to the Ural mountains but with a side of gas stations for about 7000 km eastward.
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rabbitholeseverywher May 6, 2026 +9
Spiritually little, yes. Tiny, even.
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woohooguy May 5, 2026 +13
It's gonna take more than shutting down trackable signals to deter Ukraine from showing up in some form or another..
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dnight22 May 5, 2026 +25
And yet there are still people cheering russia. Must be insane winning going on in moscow.
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Free-Way-9220 May 5, 2026 +14
With all the successful long distance drone and missile strikes inside Russia the last month or three, the war has come a whole lot closer to the average Russian
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BassyTobe May 5, 2026 +25
So many people dead for one insane dictator. What a victory.
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G0U_LimitingFactor May 6, 2026 +4
Victory day refers to WW2, not the current conflict.
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MangoIll1543 May 6, 2026 +2
WW2 had its share of insane dictators
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BassyTobe May 6, 2026 +1
I know, but nazis celebrating victory over the nazis in WW II seem strange to me.
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auchinleck917 May 6, 2026 +1
Bush smiles.
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GrouchyLongBottom May 5, 2026 +19
If they don't want attackers, why are they doing the attacking?!
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Elendils_Bear May 5, 2026 +18
Little early for that its 4 days from now
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peepee2tiny May 5, 2026 +24
They are trying to stop would be attackers from coming in now. Although the would be attackers have been in Russia for weeks already.
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pre_pun May 5, 2026 +5
It's Victory Day. Don't call, Don't come.
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Darryl_444 May 5, 2026 +4
Operation Spiderweb used Russian cellular networks to pilot drones trucked in from Ukraine. I wonder if Putler fears a repeat?
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tywdyfor May 5, 2026 +3
Isn't Putin still cowering in a bunker? Vlad the Impala.
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Strayed8492 May 5, 2026 +3
Ukraine should send in just scout drones to help record this ‘glorious’ parade and the excitement it causes.
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JonesQVCX May 5, 2026 +3
I hope the air will be buzzing, the ground screaming and Moscow becoming lit
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TiranTheTyrant May 6, 2026 -9
Of course escalation is what we need, right? 
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Mushroom_Tip May 5, 2026 +5
That doesn't sound like victory at all. They should be celebrating shoddy second-rate day,
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green_flash May 5, 2026 +11
Some people here seem confused what victory this is about. It's the WWII Victory Day parade, held in 1945, 1965, 1985, 1990 and every year since 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade
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Prestigious-Car-4877 May 5, 2026 +21
Nah. We just don't care about Russia's chest beating. That was the Soviet Union's victory anyway, not the Russian Federation.
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green_flash May 5, 2026 +8
Some seemed genuinely confused.
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auchinleck917 May 6, 2026 +1
It's like saying Germany isn't Prussia, so it shouldn't carry on traditions and should stop holding parades.
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Prestigious-Car-4877 May 6, 2026 +2
I have no idea if your being supportive of my comment or not. Prussia was like a zillion years ago. Germany isn't at war with any countries that were part of Prussia.
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Amstervince May 6, 2026 +1
Yea and a lot of the man came from Ukraine. The irony to celebrate that for Russia is unfortunately lost on the goblins
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successfullynumb May 5, 2026 +4
Their annual "Remember when we were the good guys by virtue of the bad guys being even worse" parade.
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PleasantWay7 May 6, 2026 +3
\*The bad guys who we first signed a non-aggression pact with while carving up Poland.
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NiiliumNyx May 5, 2026 +1
its my annual "watch a bunch of youtubers dunk on Russia's victory day parade and make fun of putin" parade
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CanadianJogger May 5, 2026 +2
I like what someone said. Some blue and yellow paint drones courtesy of Ukraine would liven up the parade.
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totallyRebb May 6, 2026 +2
"You're going to celebrate .. OR ELSE"
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Friendly_Soil6617 May 6, 2026 +2
Imagine you wet dreamed of holding a parade in Kyiv in 2022, but in 2026 you can't hold one in Moscow
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Head_Audience2014 May 6, 2026 +2
He's going to do something horrible to his own people just so he can blame it on Ukraine and rally people to his cause....
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Shadowlance23 May 6, 2026 +2
At this point, the parade will consist of a boy scout and a German Shepard.
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Common-Ad6470 May 5, 2026 +4
Would live to watch this live somewhere but I guess it will have a deliberate delay so they can simply chop out any drone footage…🤣
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monkeybawz May 5, 2026 +1
This will be the best soapbox derby ever.
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Mewhomewhy May 5, 2026 +1
Worst. It’s Russia.
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ShadowmanePX41 May 5, 2026 +1
Soon even Putin will have to lock himself up in chains and throw away the key with how tight security’s becoming…
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bappestinian May 6, 2026 +1
Can they just shut down their internet forever?
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gao7on May 6, 2026 +1
Even the most hardliners know these past three years are far from victorious. Zangief: "I'm bad, but that's okay..."
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Trigger109 May 6, 2026 +1
I love when parades loom. A foreboding parade
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szornyu May 6, 2026 +1
I think this is a never-to-return chance, to load-test Putin's remaining air defense systems concentrated in Moscow... Or gain some advantage somewhere else, where those systems were taken away for this event... Or just have a restful day on the front.
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HunkaMunkaHunkaMunka 6 days ago +1
Victory day celebrates when russia got backstabbed by their nazi allies and had to quickly switch sides, joining the fight when all the hard work was done and having to scrounge weapons and resources off the Americans. Yes, something really worth celebrating. Even more ironic is the fact that russia today is basically Nazi Germany.
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Severe_Air_4353 May 5, 2026 +1
Since Russia has no care for civilians. I hope Ukraine takes out as many milatary vehicles as possible , milatary parade to show they are asses deserve it . Civilians were warned to stay away .
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hung-games May 5, 2026 +1
Im not sure if the Russian language has the concept of quotation marks like English does, but if they do, a minor but awesome media hack would just be to replace all instances of: Victory Day With the altered text being: “Victory” Day
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TiranTheTyrant May 6, 2026 +2
Yep, we use quotation marks this way
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DahliaSkarigal May 5, 2026 +1
A victory parade? I thought putin was hiding in a bunker, crying how he didn’t get to wrongfully take another country. Lmao
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supercali45 May 5, 2026 +1
Nothing like having a Victory Day when the war is still going on
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G0U_LimitingFactor May 6, 2026 +1
It's a WW2 celebration. I doubt they'll be celebrating the Ukraine war in the future.
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delinquent_doll May 6, 2026 -3
Fiber optic drones can still get through (:
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Good_Restaurant15 6 days ago +1
they only need to get/launch them 742 Km inside the border then, not great, not terrible. Actually, in 2025 they were getting ready to test 100km range... today, I don't doubt they've gone even further than that.
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delinquent_doll 5 days ago +1
Or launch them from within moscow, smuggle them in, and launch within 10km
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