Victory Day parades in 2023 have been canceled in at least 21 cities where they were held a year earlier.
The Layout publication says that among the cities that refused parades “for security reasons” are Kaluga, Ryazan, Orel, Saratov, Lipetsk, Yelets and Tyumen.
The cancellation of the parades in Pskov and Velikiye Luki was also justified by concern for the “participants of the NVO” who come for rehabilitation. They, according to the head of the region, Mikhail Vedernikov, “perceive the sounds of fireworks in a completely different way.”
In Kursk, they decided not to hold the parade, “taking into account the current situation,” writes Layout, and in Belgorod, “so as not to provoke the enemy with a large accumulation of equipment and military personnel” in the city center.
In Bryansk, Krasnodar and Sochi, the authorities did not explain the cancellation of the parades, simply putting the residents before the fact that there would be no parades in 2023.
On the night of May 3, the Kremlin, as the Russian authorities announced, was attacked by “Ukrainian drones.” As the speaker of the Kremlin shorty Dmitry Peskov stated, despite the attack, the parade on Red Square on May 9 is not planned to be canceled.
Experts from the American Institute for the Study of War, in turn, believe that the Russian authorities can take advantage of the “drone attack” (according to their version, it was most likely staged), including to reduce or cancel celebrations in honor of Victory Day.
Source: Racurs
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