'Victory will be ours,' Putin tells Victory Day parade without any tanks

I wonder what the 2027 and 2028 editions will look like. Three soldiers, a truck and a crate of random weapons ?

Begged Zelenskyy for permission to hold the parade, then declared 'victory will be ours' — the logic is as empty as Red Square itself.

and before the "fly over" they showed game-footage of the jets and those even had flags of many countries on them xdd

A sickly mule with cardboard tank parts strapped to it

Kind of makes me wonder what the world would be like if war was simply unprofitable. Maybe the militaries of the world will just largely disappear because nobody's willing to fund the peacock show.

Why did they give permission?

Hard to have a tank parade when your entire armored division is currently being sold for scrap metal on eBay. 

Well,, that's back when they had tanks. And the cannon fodder doesn't really count when they can't even make it to the front line.

NK deployed troops to learn Russian tactics, while now watching those tactics fail miserably due to drone strategy evolution.

They had some very nice videos of tanks, let’s be fair

aa, steiner xD

It was wonderful going to Moscow. All of the things there are for the betterment of man. I even saw a picture of that man.

Strictly speaking he already did. The damage to demographics, economy and foreign relations is practically irreparable. The inertia is insane though. Imagine a country as a train - as long as the train is somewhat maintained and was solidly built, it could go on for a long time. The passengers might already be gone, the cargo is lost, driver went completely insane and the current route leads straight into the unfinished bridge. Still the train goes on and to an external observer it might even look fine - it would only look like something is wrong when the observer would see both the train and impending half finished bridge. But that would happen at the very end of the route. Being on the inside of the train I can tell you this much - shit's fucked all the way. This f****** one way wacky ride is going straight to hell with everyone onboard. Not the first time in russian history. Hopefully this time this godforsaken empire would finally shatter, would be de-nuclearised and we would have some sembla of normalcy

It already is. Only war time economy and lies keep Russia floating just barely. When war stops Russia dives nose deep into diarrhea depression.

Anything for the tiny mass-murdering psychopath's personal power fantasy.

thing about wartime economy is that when it stops it hits like a truck and harder the longer it goes. Russia is going into the dark ages after this. Huge chunk of the future working population is gone either left Russia or died on the battlefield. It will also affect Ukraine, however I bet EU will fund a lot of rebuilding, do deals for loans and import companies and factories to Ukraine so I think they will be better off than Russia. People will come there for EU sponsored work from other countries. It's also more likely that Ukrainians that left will want to return to peacetime Ukraine than Russians that left will want to return to Russia from the country they have settled into.

Oh that happened a while ago.

And "confidency" of brainfuZZed degens with extra-chromosome (admitted by medinsky) not working anyway, imho 🤷‍♂️

It was some top-tier shithousery from Zelensky to issue a decree allowing it, as if he was doing Putin a favour. You know that's got Putin furious 😂

It does make Russia look pathetic.

A YouTuber that covers the war spoke about it perfectly, Ukraine and the west care about it's people, unlike Russia, so when offered to exchange 1000 pow's for a ceasefire, Ukraine took it.

Attacking the parade would only give Russia a huge piece of propaganda to milk sympathy from and try to rally a new wave of patriotism. The smartest move was to to exactly what Zelenski did. To seem merciful, but in control of the situation.

he’s just not Putin

Shitty parade is not a big price for one thousand of Ukrainian PoWs that Russia has to release. As the Chief of Unmanned System Forces of Ukraine says: drones are not like yoghurt, they have no expiration date.

Nah, it makes Ukraine look good and Russia look pathetic. Basically mocking Russia by "allowing" this joke of a parade, makes Putin look weak to his people.

He didn't do that for Putin, this move was to gain a reprieve from fighting. Could be exhaustion or reconsolidation, either way it was a smart play.

F***** has been living in his personal Lala-Land for a long time. Just a shame that real people have to pay with their lives and futures for it.

There are lots and lots of people dissatisfied with Putin and with the war these days. Frankly speaking, I don't know anyone among my colleagues at work and my family members and friends who believe in his shit. Even my mom, who ardently supported Putin all this time hates him now. Then again, I live in Moscow, so I don't know what people think in the "outer" Russia. But as long as the military stays on Putin's side nothing will change, so its not like the opinion of an average Russian matters.

I think a great many got a feeling of: everybody hates us now, so might as well double down on the nationalism. Funnily enough that mostly seem to be young people living abroad. I know some Russians over here in Germany and some of them are impossible to talk to. I think it’s a self-defense mechanism.

The Ukranian farmers stole them all and won't give them back.

Nah, they had to take a weird [route](https://globalfactchecking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/photo_2025-05-08-16.21.29.jpeg) according to [this source](https://globalfactchecking.com/fake-route-of-fico-to-russia-how-slovakias-prime-minister-actually-traveled-to-moscow/).

Tanks, Andy. Tanks.

Has he sent his kindest thanks to Ukraine yet? It was kind of them to give him 45 minutes.

Hahaha my thoughts exactely. Lazer is my spirit animal And his videos go so hard, it’s strangely soothing.

I thought it was 3 days? lol

Russian history is pretty shit show after shit show. They had multiple cholera outbreaks in the 20th century because Moscow didn't have clean water and most Russians used to wear foot wraps because they were mediaeval peasants and didn't have socks.