Here are a few images from earlier today at the parade in Moscow:
The parade in Moscow is now officially over and Putin is shaking hands with senior military officers.
The official Kremlin website has posted video and a Russian-language text of President Putin's Victory Day speech.
President Putin and world leaders are now placing flowers by the eternal flame and the grave of the unknown soldier near the Kremlin walls.
Rossia-24 is now showing Putin's pre-parade speech again. Here are some quotes in English:
"Today, in marking this sacred anniversary, we once again acknowledge all the grandiosity of the victory over Nazism. We are proud that it was our fathers and grandfathers who were able to overcome, defeat, and destroy this dark force."
"The Soviet Union took on itself the fiercest blows of the enemy. Here is where the Nazis' best forces were concentrated. Here were concentrated all their military might. Here took place the largest and most decisive battles of World War II. And it is just that it was the Red Army that, as a result of the shattering storming of Berlin, brought to a victorious conclusion the war with Hitler's Germany."
"The Great Victory will always remain the heroic peak of the history of our country. But we remember our allies in the anti-Hitler coalition as well. We are grateful to the peoples of Great Britain and France, the United States of America for their contribution to victory. We are grateful to antifascists of various countries who selflessly fought in partisan units and the underground. Including in Germany itself. We remember the historic meeting of allies at the Elbe. [We remember] that trust and unity, which became our common heritage, an example of the coming together of peoples for the sake of peace and stability."
"In recent decades the basic principles of international cooperation have been increasingly often ignored. Those principles, which were based on the suffering of humanity after the global trials of war. We have seen efforts to create a monopolar world. We have seen how military bloc mentalities have grown stronger. All this is shaking the foundations of peaceful progress."
"Our common task must be to work out a system of equal security for all states. Systems that are adequate to meet modern threats, that are built on regional and global foundations, rather than military alliances. Only then can we establish peace and calm on the planet."
"We bow down before all who fought to the death on every street, in every house, in every corner of the Fatherland. Those who died in the fierce battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. In the Kursk salient and on the Dnieper. Those who died of hunger and cold in unbowed Leningrad. Those who were tortured in concentration camps, as prisoners, under occupation. We bow our heads before the sacred memory of the sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, men, women, brothers, sisters, fellow servicemen, family members, and friends. Those who did not return from the war. Those who are not here today."
It looks like they had fireworks in Minsk:
Guardian correspondent Shaun Walker took some shots of people in the stands at the Red Square parade, including Night Wolves motorcycle club leader Aleksandr Zaldostanov, filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov, and others.
Here's a short clip of the ICBMs on Red Square today and a bit of the fly-over:
They had a flyover in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, today as well:
