MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. Enhanced security measures are underway to organize and hold the military parade on Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
"There will certainly be enhanced security measures just like it was in the previous years," Peskov said, adding that "so far, there are no changes in the plans for the parade."
The Kremlin press office announced earlier on Monday that media accreditation for the military parade had opened on the Kremlin’s website on April 3.
As the press office reported, "the accreditation is being held for the following events: May 7. Red Square. The final rehearsal of the military parade devoted to the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. May 9. Red Square. The military parade devoted to the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War."
The media accreditation for the event will take place only on the Kremlin’s website and will be over at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time on April 12, it specified.
Requests for the accreditation will be accepted from Russian media outlets registered with Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor and foreign journalists accredited at the Foreign Ministry of Russia.
The writing media will be able to send a journalist and a photo correspondent from the editorial board to cover the parade while television channels will be able to send a filming team of no more than three people, the Kremlin press office said.
Last year, 1,246 journalists were accredited for the Victory Day Parade on May 9, including representatives of some US, British, Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Czech, Japanese and other foreign media outlets.
2022 Victory Day Parade in Moscow
Russia’s Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square last year 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.