By Alain Barluet
Published
yesterday at 7:21 p.m.,
Update yesterday at 7:21 p.m.
Evgenia Novozhenina/REUTERS
REPORT – As Victory Day 1945 approaches, armored vehicles supplied to kyiv by NATO countries support the Kremlin’s official narrative.
Correspondent in Moscow
The exhibition is called “Trophies of the Russian Army”: thirty-two armored vehicles supplied by the West to Ukraine and seized on the battlefield. Thirty-two prizes of war, lined up in the open air, on the vast esplanade of the “Victory Park” in Moscow and supposed to relay the eternal official message, according to which the fights of yesterday – against Nazism – are comparable to those of today, against the Kiev regime and its NATO allies. Moreover, in addition to recent equipment, a Marder II anti-tank gun, taken from the Germans in 1943, was placed under a canopy bearing a clear message: “The story repeats itself.”
Opened on 1er May a few days before the May 9 parade which will take place on Red Square, the exhibition will be held until the end of the month. During this holiday period, crowds flock, often with families, under the red banners to see the carcasses of the armored vehicles, each carrying the flag of their country of origin, some…
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