World War II veterans danced during Victory Day celebrations in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday. Belarus and other former Soviet countries celebrated the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on Thursday. (Photo by Viktor Drachev/AFP Photo)

Aleksey Asolski, a 91 -year-old veteran of World War II, joins Victory Day celebrations at the Antakalnis memorial in Vilnius, Lithuania on Thursday. (Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis/Associated Press)

A Georgian WW II veteran attends the Victory Day celebration in Tbilisi. (Photo by Shakh Aivazov/Associated Press)

A Georgian military cadet speaks with a WW II veteran at a WW II memorial during Victory Day celebration in Tbilisi, as Georgia celebrates the 68th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. (Photo by Shakh Aivazov/Associated Press)

Cadets of the Ukrainian Military academy prepare to celebrate the anniversary of victory over the Nazis at a memorial to World War II veterans in Kiev on Thursday. Ukrainians continue to celebrate the World War II anniversary and Victory Day on May 9 as a national holiday. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)

Ukrainians looks for their family surname engraved on the memorial to Soviet Union Heroes in Kiev. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)

The traditional Victory Parade in Ashdod, Israel May 9, 2013. (Photo by seroleg7)

Veterants of World War II take part in a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe at the war memorial in Nice, France on May 8. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau/Associated Press)

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and French President Francois Hollande, flanked by French and Polish soldiers, lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during Wednesday's ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. (Photo by Michel Euler/Associated Press)

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center left , President Vladimir Putin, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev react as they watch the Victory Day Parade in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press)

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (2nd R) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (2nd L) watch the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. Russia commemorates the 68th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Russian WWII veterans walk after a Victory Day parade at Red Square on Thursday, May 9, 2013. President Vladimir Putin said at the annual military parade hat Russia will be a guarantor of world security. Putin's short speech came at the culmination of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

Military jets fly over an Orthodox Christian church during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Moscow, May 7, 2013. Russia marks victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two every year on May 9. (Photo by Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters)

Youths dressed in Red Army uniforms participate in a street performance ahead of Victory Day in the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, May 7, 2013. Russia marks its victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two every year on May 9. (Photo by Ylia Naymushin/Reuters)

A World War Two veteran dances with a girl dressed in a Red Army uniform during a street performance ahead of Victory Day in the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, May 7, 2013. (Photo by Ylia Naymushin/Reuters)

Military equipment take part in the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. (Photo by EPA)

Russia President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier on the eve of Victory Day in Moscow May 8, 2013. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin/Reuters/RIA Novosti)

World War Two veteran Michael Tarskikh and his wife Irina, both 87, take part in a street dancing event on the eve of Victory Day in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, May 8, 2013. Tarskikh made 227 night flights on a Po-2 biplane across the front line for surveillance and photographing of Nazis target during World War Two in Belarus, Lithuania and East Prussia, took part in a storm of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) and finished the war in the Baltic port of Danzig (Gdansk). Russia marks victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Russian servicemen take part in the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. Russia commemorates the 68th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Russian servicemen take part in the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Russian servicemen take part in the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R) salutes during the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. Russia commemorates the 68th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu salutes during the Victory Parade on Moscow's Red Square May 9, 2013. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

A child wearing Soviet Navy style uniform salutes during celebration of the Victory Day in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Russia is celebrating the anniversary of victory over Germany in WWII. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Russian WWII veterans walk after the Victory Day parade at Red Square on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the annual military parade hat Russia will be a guarantor of world security. Putin's short speech came at the culmination of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo)

A World War II veteran speaks with a little child during Victory Day celebration in the Armenian capital Yerevan. Armenia as well as the other former Soviet republics celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany, the date of the Nazis' capitulation to the Soviet Union, which took place in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time), following the original capitulation Germany agreed earlier to the joint Allied forces on the Western Front. (Photo by Karen Minasyan/Getty Images)

Military equipment of the Second World War took part in the traditional Victory Parade in Verkhnyaya Pyshma near Yekaterinburg, Russia May 9, 2013. (Photo by Kirill Zajcev)

The traditional Victory Parade in Lipetsk, Russia May 9, 2013. (Photo by LipetskMedia)

Russian soldiers march on Red Square in Moscowvduring the Victory Day parade which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany. Victory Day is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press)

Russian soldiers march along Red Square during the Victory Day parade on May 9. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/Associated Press)

The traditional Victory Parade in Irkutsk, Russia May 9, 2013. (Photo by GazetaIrkutsk)

Two young men speak with WW II veterans Aleksakin Nikolay 90, second left, and Anna Parukhova, 90, second right, during Victory Day in Moscow's Gorky Park. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press)

Russian air force fighters fly over Red Square during Thursday's Victory Day parade. (Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/Associated Press)

World War II veterans ride a car as a member of a historical military club wearing Soviet army uniform speaks on a phone during the celebration of Victory Day in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)

A girl smells the flowers inserted in the barrel of an artillery canon during Victory Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)