MOSCOW, May 9. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin highly commended the preparations for the Victory Parade and its holding on Moscow’s Red Square, Army Commander-in-Chief General of the Army Oleg Salyukov said on Monday.
"The supreme commander-in-chief thanked for it and gave a high mark. I believe that this is fair and this is a high mark for boys both in the foot and mechanized columns," the Army chief said.
A military parade to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War took place on Moscow’s Red Square on May 9.
This year, Russia’s Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square involved 11,000 troops and 131 items of military and special hardware. The airborne part of the military parade on Moscow’s Red Square was cancelled due to unfavorable weather conditions.
The foot columns comprised 33 parade units that included officers, sergeants and soldiers of military units and formations of the Western Military District, students and cadets of military educational institutions, Suvorov infantry and Nakhimov naval schools and cadet corps, Young Army Movement members and representatives of other ministries and agencies and the all-Russia Cossack Society.
Russian servicemen who took part in battles in the Donbass region also took part in the military parade on Moscow’s Red Square.
A legendary T-34 tank traditionally led the mechanized column at the Victory Day Parade. The mechanized column included Taifun off-road armored vehicles, BMP-2, BMP-3 and Kurganets-25 infantry fighting vehicles, T-72B3M, T-90M ‘Proryv’ and T-14 ‘Armata main battle tanks, Iskander-M tactical missile systems, Msta-S howitzers and Tornado-G multiple launch rocket systems, Tor-M2, Buk-M3 and S-400 ‘Triumf’ surface-to-air missile systems, Yars ICBM launchers and Uran-9 combat robotic vehicles.