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Added on the 09/05/2022 10:18:03 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Military vehicles head towards Red Square in Moscow, as Russia celebrates its 1945 victory over Nazi Germany with a show of military might. Russia's army continues to battle Kyiv's forces in the east of Ukraine, where 60 people were killed on Sunday in an airstrike on a school sheltering civilians. IMAGES
The UK Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, announces at a joint presser with Polish counterpart that the UK will send a "bilateral deployment" of "350 British troops to Poland" in order to send a "strong signal that Britain and Poland stand side by side". SOUNDBITE
The French air force opens the air show on Bastille day in Paris. This year, the scaled-down ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic honours the mobilisation of armies and the medical world against the pandemic. IMAGES
Russia's President Vladimir Putin presides over a massive military procession of infantry columns and tanks through Red Square in Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II. IMAGES
Russia marks the 77th anniversary of the historic 1941 parade, when Red Army soldiers marched past the Kremlin walls towards the front line to fight Nazi Germany troops during World War Two. IMAGES