Putin 'back on world stage' at Victory Day parade

Vladimir Putin has led Russia's Victory Day commemorations with a parade successful Red Square, amid heightened information pursuing Ukrainian strikes connected Moscow.

China's Xi Jinping joined the Russian president arsenic helium told thousands of soldiers that Russia remembered the lessons of World War Two.

He besides utilized his code to necktie the warfare to today's full-scale penetration of Ukraine, and said each of Russia was down what helium called the "special subject operation" - present good into its 4th year.

BBC Monitoring's Russia Editor Vitaly Shevchenko reflects connected the day's events.