Spectators attend a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian Su-25 jet aircraft release smoke in the colours of the Russian state flag over the monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during a flypast and a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Marina Lystseva/Reuters)





Russian service members march in columns past an honour guard during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian service members march in columns during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Participants get ready for the Victory Day military parade on Dvortsovaya Square in central Saint Petersburg on May 9, 2024. Russia celebrates the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Ceremonial soldiers parade during 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on May 09, 2024. The Victory parade take place on the Red Square on 09 May to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union's Red Army over Nazi-Germany in WWII. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Spectators attend a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian “Yars” intercontinental ballistic missile launchers take part in the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, 09 May 2024. Russia marks the 79th anniversary of the victory in World War II over Nazi Germany and its allies. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in the war. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, arrives to attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 9, 2024, marking the 79th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





The aurora borealis, also known as the 'northern lights’, caused by a coronal mass ejection on the Sun, illuminate the skies over the southwestern Siberian town of Tara, Omsk region, Russia on May 11, 2024. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A woman uses her smartphone walking past a mural depicting members of Russia's Yunarmiya (Young Army) youth patriotic movement in Moscow on May 14, 2024. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





A woman plays with her dog at a beach on the Gulf of Finland as the sun sets, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet belonging to Air China flying from Madrid to Beijing passes the moon over the village of Podolye, 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, May 17, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A drone view shows a tractor during potato planting in a field of the agricultural enterprise Sovkhoz Morskoi near the village of Leninskoye in the Novosibirsk region, Russia on May 17, 2024. (Photo by Vladislav Nekrasov/Reuters)





In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, May 17, 2024, a Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying spacecrafts of the Russian Defense Ministry flies in the sky after the launch from a launch pad of Plesetsk Cosmodrome outside Plesetsk, northern Russia. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP Photo)





People play chess during a festival in the city of Novaya Ladoga (New Ladoga), 125 km (77 miles) east of St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People run in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral during a running festival in Moscow, Russia, on May 19, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People come to the Iranian embassy to pay tribute to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of a recent helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near Iran's border with Azerbaijan, in Moscow, Russia, on May 20, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





The full moon, also known as the Flower Moon, is seen behind Lomonosov Moscow State University in the city of Moscow, Russia, on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Marina Lystseva/Reuters)





Bikers take part in a parade marking the opening of a motorcycle season in Moscow, Russia on May 26, 2024. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)