The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not gone as quickly as the Kremlin once predicted, but a recent visit by a group of military students to a park in Moscow was a much speedier affair.
Ukraine had hoped that the vaunted American- and German-made war machines would help turn its fortunes on the battlefield.
“The word ‘victory’ is everywhere in Moscow these days,” a New York Times Russia correspondent, Valerie Hopkins, reported recently.
The students’ tour came just three days before Russia celebrated Victory Day, which commemorates the Nazi defeat in World War II.
It also displays military equipment from the Second World War.
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