Moscow holds 'most smiling parade' involving children and intercontinental rockets

Russian servicemen drive Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile system during the Victory Day parade, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

On May 9, a military parade was held in Moscow in honor of the 74th anniversary of the victory in World War II. In addition to the leaders of Russia, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, former presidents of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev took part in it.

Parade in Moscow.

Photo: Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS/Forum

More than 13,000 servicemen took part in the Victory Parade, including the consolidated women’s detachment of the Russian Defense Ministry and the military patriotic movement Yunarmiya.

Parade in Moscow.

Photo: Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS/Forum

Among other things, launchers of intercontinental ballistic missiles “Yars” took part in the parade.

The air part of the parade was canceled due to bad weather. It should have involved 56 aircraft and 18 helicopters, RIA Novosti reports.

Yunarmiya children in Moscow. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/REUTERS/Forum

Telegram-channel “Nezygar” notes that “this Parade was the most” smiling “in recent years.”

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