In both Ukraine and Russia, May 9 is marked as the day Nazi Germany was defeated in the Second World War.
This year, the patriotic occasion was celebrated in very different ways in the two countries’ capitals.
In Kyiv — unlike Moscow — there was no Victory Day parade. Instead, Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky posted to social media a video of himself walking down one of the empty commercial streets of the city.
He walked past tank barriers and sandbags as the video flashed back to previous, peaceful holidays and parades — with a much less haggard-looking Zelensky watching a flypast.
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