Russia replaced its once-grand Navy Day parade with a shipless event and a giant poster of a submarine
Russia's typically grand Navy Day parade was replaced with a small reception this year.No ships were on display, just a large poster of a Borei-class submarine.The event once featured a warship line-up, but was canceled amid the threat of Ukraine's drone strikes.Russia canceled its landmark Navy Day parade for the second year in a row, instead holding a muted event where only large posters of warships on display.Two rows of roughly 30 sailors greeted the country's leader, Vladimir Putin, as he arrived on Sunday at the Russian Navy's headquarters in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin said he met with commanders and presented several awards to navy personnel.A small military band welcomed Putin in a cordoned-off courtyard of the Admiralty headquarters to commemorate the 330th anniversary of Russia's navy.The scale of the reception, held in front of a towering poster of the Alexander Nevsky, a Borei-class nuclear-powered missile submarine, stood in stark contrast to Russia's usual fanfare for Navy Day.
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Russia's typically grand Navy Day parade was replaced with a small reception this year.No ships were on display, just a large poster of a Borei-class submarine.The event once featured a warship line-up, but was canceled amid the threat of Ukraine's drone strikes.Russia canceled its landmark Navy Day parade for the second year in a row, instead holding a muted event where only large posters of warships on display.Two rows of roughly 30 sailors greeted the country's leader, Vladimir Putin, as he arrived on Sunday at the Russian Navy's headquarters in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin said he met with commanders and presented several awards to navy personnel.A small military band welcomed Putin in a cordoned-off courtyard of the Admiralty headquarters to commemorate the 330th anniversary of Russia's navy.The scale of the reception, held in front of a towering poster of the Alexander Nevsky, a Borei-class nuclear-powered missile submarine, stood in stark contrast to Russia's usual fanfare for Navy Day. In another section of the courtyard, a second poster was displayed, depicting two large combat surface vessels.The Kremlin has typically held grand parades of sailors and surface vessels in Kronstadt, a naval base near St. Petersburg, and on the Neva River to mark the national holiday.
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- Russia's typically grand Navy Day parade was replaced with a small reception this year.No ships were on display, just a large poster of a Borei-class submarine.The event once featured a warship line-up, but was canceled amid the threat of Ukraine's drone strikes.Russia canceled its landmark Navy Day parade for the second year in a row, instead holding a muted event where only large posters of warships on display.Two rows of roughly 30 sailors greeted the country's leader, Vladimir Putin, as he arrived on Sunday at the Russian Navy's headquarters in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin said he met with commanders and presented several awards to navy personnel.A small military band welcomed Putin in a cordoned-off courtyard of the Admiralty headquarters to commemorate the 330th anniversary of Russia's navy.The scale of the reception, held in front of a towering poster of the Alexander Nevsky, a Borei-class nuclear-powered missile submarine, stood in stark contrast to Russia's usual fanfare for Navy Day.
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