TODAY Putin will host world leaders for a massive victory parade in Moscow.
Guests of honour include China’s President Xi Jinping.
The main event will be a huge military parade in Red Square, right next to the Kremlin.
The event – celebrating the defeat of Nazism in WW2 – is a key part of Russia’s national identity.
The arrival of so many heads of state, including the leaders of Brazil, Egypt and Vietnam – is a major PR coup for Moscow, and a chance to show the West that its efforts to isolate Russia have failed.
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