War in Ukraine: what is Putin preparing for May 9, “Victory Day” in Russia?

How to celebrate “Victory Day” when his army skates on the ground? Russia is preparing to commemorate, on May 9, the end of the Great Patriotic War, that is to say the Second World War. Every year, an impressive military parade is held in Red Square, Moscow. It brings together soldiers, tanks, helicopters, planes… “It’s a great popular and national holiday with always a lot of people present, it looks a bit like our July 14”, describes Carole Grimaud Potter, professor of geopolitics at Russia at the University of Montpellier. A show of forces all the more symbolic as the Russian army “is significantly weaker, materially and conceptually, following its invasion of Ukraine”, according to a note from British intelligence published this tuesday.