Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2025: Online Broadcast

On May 9, the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Victory Parade will take place on Red Square. It will start at 10:00 and last two hours. The parade will be reviewed by Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov. Russians will see a procession of military equipment and foot crews. At the end, planes will fly over the Kremlin. Dozens of foreign leaders and delegations have arrived in Moscow.

9.41 The parade will involve three times more military equipment than in 2024.

9.35 Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia invited many foreign leaders to Victory Day not because it "wants something from them" but to "share their strength of spirit."

9.29 Parade guests will receive gift sets, which include khaki-colored backpacks, a blanket, water, chocolate, a copy of the May 9, 1945 issue of the Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper with the act of Germany's surrender, a cap, binoculars, a raincoat, a badge, Alexander Tvardovsky's book Vasily Terkin, and the board game Storming Berlin.

9.20 Among the foreign leaders who have already arrived at the Kremlin ahead of the parade are Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Abkhaz leader Badra Gunba and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

9.12 A column of military equipment in Moscow will proceed from Nizhniye Mnevniki along Zvenigorodskoye Highway through Barrikadnaya, Triumfalnaya Square and Tverskaya.

9.01 Parades will take place not only in Moscow, but also in many other large cities of Russia, including St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Murmansk, Smolensk, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don.

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