Firstly, if compared to 2020 and 2021, you will notice this years parade is a lot smaller. It features 131 vehicles, compared to 234 in 2020 and 197 in 2021. 2/
A large portion of the combat ready vehicles are missing from this years parade, including TOS-1s, Pantsir-S1s, T-80BVMs and BM-30 Smerchs. 3/
The Rosgvardia (National Guard) armored vehicles that are usually part of the parade are also missing this year. They are being used extensively in the invasion of Ukraine and have suffered heavy losses. 4/
The parades usually impressive display of MLRS systems appears to have been demoted to 9 Tornado-G upgraded Grad systems. 5/
The large part of their parade consists of their "next generation" systems that exist in too few numbers to have been fielded in combat in Ukraine. Systems such as the T-14 Armata, Kurganets-25, VPK-7829 Bumerang and Uran-9. 6/
There were reports of Russia air defense activating, then several explosions and now smoke from a large fire near Tomarovka in the Belgorod Oblast of Russia.
Seems like an ammunition depot might have been hit.
Somewhere between 6-10 explosions were heard before the smoke started rising according to reports.
Firstly, there are a less Ka-52 and Mi-28 helicopters taking part in the flyover this year. 3 of each down from 5 of each. Especially the Ka-52 is being used heavily in Ukraine and has suffered significant loses. Russia has lost 10% of it's Ka-52 fleet. 2/
This year's flyover features a Ilyushin Il-80, which has was not part of the parade in the previous 2 years. The Il-80 is a Russian airborne command and control aircraft, commonly referred to as a "Doomsday aircraft", designed to command in the event of a nuclear war. 3/
Bila Tserkva is located around 50km south of Kyiv in an area that was never occupied by Russian forces. While the helicopter air assault on Hostomel was foolish, an airborne paradrop this far behind Ukrainian lines would have been suicidal.
After 2 months, we still have no evidence of any Il-76s being shot down in the area. Il-76 are very large aircraft and as such the debris field from a shoot down would be huge.
This is not a fighter, it is larger than many commercial airliners.
40 countries were invited to the US hosted Ukraine defense conference at Ramstein air base. All the countries invited have not been named, but we can assume all 30 NATO countries were. Add Ukraine and that leaves 10 non-NATO countries in attendance.
Finland is there, I would assume that means Sweden is also present.
Seems like we have our first images of the Moskva. From the location of the smoke and fire it does not look like there was any ammunition explosion. Looks line the Neptune missiles hit just by the exhausts.