Military Parade to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 2025

Military Parade to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Moscow, Red Square, May 9, 2025.
Together with Vladimir Putin, heads of delegations of foreign states were on the podium.

Before the start of the parade, the Russian President greeted the leaders of foreign states in the Kremlin who arrived in Moscow to take part in the ceremonial events.

The parade began with the carrying out of the Russian national flag and the Victory Banner onto Red Square. The parade was commanded by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, General of the Army Oleg Salyukov, and the parade was accepted by Defense Minister Andrei Belousov.

The marching column on Red Square included 55 parade units: more than eleven and a half thousand servicemen, more than one and a half thousand of whom were participants in the special military operation. Servicemen from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Egypt, China, Laos, Mongolia and Myanmar also took part in the Victory Parade.

The mechanized column was headed by the legendary "Pobeda tank" T-34 and self-propelled artillery mounts SU-100. The armored vehicles "Tiger-M", "VPK Ural", protected ambulances "Linza", combat reconnaissance vehicles BRM-1K, armored personnel carriers BTR-82A, infantry fighting vehicles BMP-2M, BMP-3, "Kurganets-25", airborne combat vehicles BMD-4 and BTR-MDM "Rakushka", tanks T-72BZM, T-80BVM, T-90M "Proryv" drove along the cobblestones of the main square. The missile forces and artillery were represented by self-propelled artillery systems, high-precision missile systems "Iskander-M", anti-aircraft missile system S-400 "Triumph", launchers of the missile system "Yars". For the first time, the parade demonstrated unmanned aerial vehicles and loitering munitions "Orlan", "Lancet", "Garpiya" and "Geran".

The Victory Parade ended with an aviation flyover: the famous "Cuban diamond" flew over Red Square - a rhombus of Su-30 and MiG-29 aircraft of the aerobatic teams "Russian Knights" and "Swifts", the parade formation was closed by Su-25 attack aircraft, traditionally painting the sky in the colors of the Russian flag.

The combined military orchestra of the Moscow garrison provided musical support for the parade.