![MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA - JUNE 10, 2020: Mikoyan MiG-29UB fighter jets of the Strizhi [Swifts] aerobatic team and Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets of the Russkiye Vityazi [Russian Knights] aerobatic team fly in formation during a rehearsal of a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in Alabino. Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed the Victory Day parade to June 24 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Sergei Bobylev/TASS
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TIRANA – Russian troops and aviation held a joint rehearsal at the Alabino training range outside Moscow ahead of the Victory Parade on Moscow’s Red Square on June 24, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
“A joint rehearsal of foot formations, the mechanized column and the aircraft flyover of the military parade timed for the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War took place on the parade ground in Alabino in the Moscow Region,” the ministry said as quoted by TASS news agency.
Over 40 parade units consisting of officers, sergeants and soldiers of military units and formations, students and cadets of military educational institutions, trainees of military schools, cadet corps and members of the Young Amy movement, and also the personnel of other defense, security and law-enforcement agencies marched in the foot column.
“The mechanized column comprised 232 modern and advanced weapon systems, including 20 items of military hardware that will take part in the military parade for the first time,” the Defense Ministry said.
Russia commemorates the Soviet Union’s victory over the Nazis each year on May 9 with a massive military display but President Vladimir Putin postponed the parade to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
In the meantime TASS news agency reported on Thursday that Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 8,779 in the past day, reaching 502,436, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday.
According to the anti-coronavirus crisis center, the daily growth in COVID-19 cases was 1.8% and a day earlier it stood at 1.7%. Some 1,436 new cases were recorded in Moscow, taking the total case tally in the capital to 201,221. Currently, some 82,314 people are ill in Moscow./argumentum.al
