The Victory Parade was held in St. Petersburg

This year, the Victory parade on May 9 was held without aviation and with a limited number of military personnel.

3400 people-veterans, blockade, participants in the war in Ukraine and invited guests were able to see the parade from the stands and the observation deck, the St. Petersburg TV channel said .

War participants in Ukraine were compared with participants in the Great Patriotic War

“Today, our military personnel, participating in a special operation in Ukraine, prove that they are worthy of their ancestors,” said Sergey Bakanev, the head of the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy before the parade.