Yuriy Kobzar15:17, 05/09/24

Apart from the ancient tank created in Ukraine, there were no other tanks in the parade.

A “victory parade” took place in Moscow today. As last year , only one single tank took part in it – the old T-34. Social media users, journalists and independent observers found it quite symbolic and openly mocked the parade.

Thus, the American publication Newsweek writes that the “victory parade” on May 9 has always been an opportunity for the Kremlin to demonstrate the military power of the regime, bringing dozens of state-of-the-art military equipment to Red Square. However, for two years in a row, the parade has been “muted”, with a limited amount of equipment against the backdrop of heavy losses in the war with Ukraine.

“It’s really funny that the T-14 Armata turned out to be not only too expensive for use in Ukraine, but also does not exist in large enough numbers to survive the exhaustion of the Victory Parade in Moscow,” wrote OSINT analyst Oliver Alexander on the social network X.

Parade in Moscow

Max Seddon, head of the Moscow bureau of the Financial Times, openly mocked the situation . 

“This T-34, the legendary Soviet tank of the Second World War, was the only Russian tank presented at the Victory Parade in Red Square today. Everyone else must be busy somewhere!” – he wrote in Kh.

“Well, at least it works,” wrote a pro-Ukrainian columnist (((Tendar))) in X , but his subscribers noted in the comments that the T-34 was created in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

(C)UNIAN 2024