“I don’t see the expansion of the war as a solution — it led us absolutely nowhere before. It feels like déjà vu from the year ago,” said Adi Alexander, father of Israeli-American
A bird flies over a few dead fish floating in the Tulipas stream after it turned artificially blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)A bird flies over a few dead fish floating in the Tulipas stream after it turned artificially blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A duck stained blue stands by the Tulipas stream that turned blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)A duck stained blue stands by the Tulipas stream that turned blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)Dead fish float in the Tulipas stream that turned blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Dead fish float in the Tulipas stream that turned blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)A duck stained blue swims in the Tulipas stream that turned blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A duck stained blue swims in the Tulipas stream that turned blue after an environmental accident in which a truck spilled chemical dye into the water in Jundiai, Brazil, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editorsUkraine’s Foreign Ministry urged foreign countries not to send military representatives to take part in the parade, as some have in the past. None is officially confirmed for this year’s event.
AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports all four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights today as Russian forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones.Ukraine will regard the participation of foreign military personnel as “an affront to the memory of the victory over Nazism, to the memory of millions of Ukrainian front-line soldiers who liberated our country and all of Europe from Nazism eight decades ago,” a statement on the ministry’s website said.
Security is expected to be tight. Russian officials have warned that internet access could be restricted in Moscow during the celebrations and have told residents not to set off fireworks.Putin last week declared the brief unilateral truce “on humanitarian grounds” from May 8. Ukraine has demanded a longer ceasefire.