Putin Cancels Parades Over Fears Of Kamikaze Drone Attacks From Ukraine

This year – amid Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks targeting oil refineries inside the country – several events have been axed. Celebrated every year on May 9, the Victory Parade will take place online in some regions, Elena Tsunaeva, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labour, Social Policy and Veterans’ Affairs, announced (Picture: Getty)
Portraits of veterans will be placed on public transport instead of the procession. Heads of multiple Russian regions and occupied Crimea, for example, announced that events will be scaled back or not happening at all, despite it being the most solemn day in the Russian calendar.
Across Russia hundreds of marches of the ‘Immortal Regiment’ – when people carry photos of their war veteran relatives – have been scrapped too. One fear was that these events could be hijacked by anti-war protesters