a live look at the weather in Moscow https://t.co/LJvFfjyqA6 pic.twitter.com/N9YGaDbdBa

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 9, 2022

"the moral degradation of the west... cancelling thousands of years of traditions...we won't give up our traditions" etc etc.

— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) May 9, 2022

Traditional parade air-show (which today was promised to paint the Z in the sky) were cancelled in Moscow and St. Petersburg due to "poor weather conditions"

— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) May 9, 2022

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Putin's parade speech had no declaration of war or mobilization. Looks like all those predictions were wrong.

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Today, Putin stated:

“Our soldiers, as their ancestors, are fighting side by side to liberate their native land from the Nazi filth with the confidence that, as in 1945, victory will be ours.”

He then wished “all of Ukraine's inhabitants a peaceful and just future.”

Pure evil. pic.twitter.com/5zfOLU6DXy

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 8, 2022

Here’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu, who has rarely appeared in public for the two and a half months of Russia’s war in Ukraine. You wouldn’t know it from the medals, but he never served a day in the army pic.twitter.com/xpXjxG0StC

— max seddon (@maxseddon) May 9, 2022

Putin quickly loses interest in the World War II commemorations and moves to justifying his war in Ukraine.

“Nato didn’t listen to us… they were preparing to attack Crimea… a clash with neo-Nazis was inevitable… Russia struck back preemptively against aggression” pic.twitter.com/M7lBivD3TH

— max seddon (@maxseddon) May 9, 2022

Su-25 in action over Popasnaya pic.twitter.com/R6A5HtfARL

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) May 9, 2022

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Let's see if his actions reflect his words.

"Scholz acknowledged that many Germans had 'concerns that the war will spread and that our peace could be jeopardized'. People should be allowed to express such fears, he said. 'But at the same time it is important to say that fear mustn’t paralyze us,' he added."

— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) May 8, 2022

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4-year old Alisa spoke on the video from Azovstal basement that she wanted to go home. Alisa has been evacuated and arrived to Zaporizhia: but her mom, Viktoriya, a doctor who treated wounded at Azovstal, didn't pass a Russian 'filtration' procedure. Her whereabouts are unknown pic.twitter.com/zVjmoZ3v36

— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) May 9, 2022

Ukrainian forces managed to kick back the russians from #Bilohorivka, their pontoon bridge was destroyed, they've lost several tanks and about two dozens of manpower are now cargo200.
Ukrainian army is now conducting mop-up operations in Bilohorivka. https://t.co/CbenYZPq0Y

— Gregor Martin (@Guderian_Xaba) May 9, 2022

#Ahora #putin #russia #ucrania
❗️⚡️#Ukraine Helicóptero ruso destruido cerca de Jarkov. pic.twitter.com/aDXWP2VOWS

— Ariel Festa (@TanitoFesta) May 9, 2022

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She is a military doctor, but still considered a noncombatant because of her role according to Geneva convention. But that doesn't matter to Russia.

4-year old Alisa spoke on the video from Azovstal basement that she wanted to go home. Alisa has been evacuated and arrived to Zaporizhia: but her mom, Viktoriya, a doctor who treated wounded at Azovstal, didn't pass a Russian 'filtration' procedure. Her whereabouts are unknown pic.twitter.com/zVjmoZ3v36

— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) May 9, 2022

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Reportedly the first video of US M777 howitzers being used by Ukrainian troops in combat in eastern Ukraine.https://t.co/dchM694fVk pic.twitter.com/9mrQW1Rr5D

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 9, 2022

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RebelE Infantry said:

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Su-25 in action over Popasnaya pic.twitter.com/R6A5HtfARL

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) May 9, 2022

Just sharing a cool video. Low level jet videos never get old to me.

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would have been a cooler video if someone stuck a stinger up the plane's ass!

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- Russian force captured the town of Seredje and have been able to enter Shandryholove on the Lozove axis.
- Russia set up two pontoon bridges across the Donets River between Yampil and Kreminna. Both have been destroyed, but small units of Russian troops were able to cross. pic.twitter.com/j5FVJyiLx5

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 9, 2022

- Between Sievierodonestk and Rubizhne, Ukrainian soldiers have been able to repel the Russian offensive on Vojevodivka that aimed to cut off the road access between the two towns. The town is now largely recaptured by Ukrainian forces. pic.twitter.com/mqNXM6pygU

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 9, 2022

- Ukrainian authorities have announced a counter-offensive in the Zaporizhia steppe but no progress is known so it cannot be mapped (and there have been some dubious claims related to it).

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 9, 2022

U.S. gave electronic warfare equipment to Ukraine for the first time on Friday since Russia's invasion on Feb. 24

To think that jamming was a thing of the past ...

— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) May 9, 2022

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A secret mobilization? The wife of a Moscow subway worker claims that her husband and his colleagues were summoned to a staff meeting and told to undergo health exams for potential “volunteer” deployment to Ukraine. Refuse and be fired or prosecuted, they allegedly told him.

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) May 9, 2022

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For anyone wondering why the tiny Snake Island has been a high priority target for both sides.

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Control of Snake Island currently enables Ukraine to claim territorial waters that extend 12 nautical miles in all directions from the island, which helps safeguard the Black Sea shipping corridor to major Ukrainian port cities Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson. This Black Sea access is crucial to Ukraine's grain and metals exports, as well as consumer good imports. Without a viable shipping lane to global markets, the Ukrainian economy would rapidly plunge into crisis.

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Also, Achilles, yes that Achilles, allegedly is buried there and the island is haunted by his ghost.

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According to legend, Achilles was buried on Snake Island. The eighth- or seventh-century B.C. poem the Aethiopis relates that, after he received his fatal ankle injury at Troy, Achilles' remains were transported to the White Island by his mother Thetis. In antiquity the small island was said to be haunted by his ghost,

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Those Russian officers disobeying are mostly mid-level, even up to the level of battalion commander, the senior U.S. defense official said.

— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) May 9, 2022

U.S. also has started a new, two-week course on howitzer maintenance, Pentagon says. That's a new detail, as well.

— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) May 9, 2022