MOSCOW, 17 Jun — RIA Novosti. soldiers from 12 countries arrived in Russia to participate in Victory parade on red square, which will be held June 24, said in an interview with the newspaper “Red star” commander of Land forces General of the army Oleg saliukov, which will command the parade.
As said Salyukov, we are talking about delegations from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to postpone the parade in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Victory due complex epidemiological situation. In Russian cities on may 9 held aviaparade and fireworks. In late may, the President announced that the Victory parade will be held June 24.
it is expected that the parade on red square will be attended by over 13 thousand military will be involved of 234 contemporary and historical ground-based military equipment, including the latest combat vehicle tank support “Terminator”, self-propelled howitzer “Coalition-SV” and “Msta-SM”, tanks T-90M and “Armata”, anti-aircraft missile systems “Buk-M3”, “tor-M2”, s-400, and 75 aircraft and helicopters.
the Audience will also see some elements of the historic parade on 24 June 1945. For example, in the beginning granted “Jubilee greeting March”. Marching band will be presented 900 musicians.
Just military parades across the country employ more than 64 thousand military, 2.4 thousand units of caterpillar, automotive and aircraft, and 20 surface ships, submarines and support vessels.