Steve Rosenberg/BBC: “Our tanks are busy right now,” Russian MP Yevgeny Popov tells me. “They are fighting. We need them more on the battlefield than on Red Square.”
“But with the war [on Ukraine] in its fifth year,” I suggest, “not only has Russia not secured victory, but under pressure from Ukraine you’re scaling back the parade. Some would say that’s embarrassing.”
“What other choice do we have?” Popov replies. “Nato countries, Ukraine and Great Britain’s weapons, your king and your prime minister, are threatening us.”…