Putin's Isolation Evident in Scaled-Down Victory Day Parade.

Vladimir Putin's annual Victory Day parade in Moscow, which celebrates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, was a drastically pared-down affair compared to years past, featuring a mere 8,000 soldiers and a lone World War II-era T-34 tank. Commenters around the world mocked the pitiful display, with some suggesting that the absence of modern battle tanks in the procession suggests that Russia has none to spare due to its growing deficit of military equipment more than 14 months into the Ukraine war.