Russian victory parades CANCELLED as ‘humiliated Putin is running out of tanks & troops in Ukraine war disaster’

RUSSIA’S triumphant Victory Day parades are being cancelled across the country as sources suggest an embarrassing “tank shortage” is responsible for the last minute change. Patriotic military parades are held each year on May 9 throughout Russia as a means of celebrating Russia’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II. APPutin attended 2022’s Victory Day Parade in Moscow’s Red Square[/caption] AFPThe same event being celebrated back in 1985 – the day is a source of national pride for Russia[/caption] These events are usually used by Putin to show off their best and biggest military equipment and garner national pride, however they are steadily and quietly being cancelled this year. As the Ukraine war batters Russia’s military arsenal, rumours are swirling that the parades were called off due to a lack of tanks to even put in the parades. Governors in both the Kursk and Belgorod oblasts – which border Ukraine – have cancelled their flag-waving events. Kursk governor Roman Starovoyt claimed it was for “security reasons,” Russian media outlet RBC reported. Likewise, Yyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod Oblast, said that the parade “would also not be held in order not to provoke the enemy with a large number of vehicles and soldiers”. Today, it was announced that authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea have called off their respective parades again citing security reasons. Sergey Aksyonov who acts as the head of the region said they would be scrapping Victory Day as well as Labour Day marches on May 1. It is a striking choice to make at a significant time when the Russian despot needs as much national support as he can get following his army’s blunders in Ukraine. The leading event usually takes place in Moscow’s Red Square to much fanfare, where an animated Putin parades his country’s military might and evokes language of “The Great Patriotic War” against Germany.