A T-34 always leads with the flag - has done since 1945 - in the same way the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is appended to any exhibition of British pomp, this is true. BUT they can't muster anything else having sent T-72s and T-62s - tanks that were obsolete decades ago and they said had...
Well, for the victory day parade, they canceled the fly-past due to bad weather (blue skies with a bit of broken cloud), had a handful of Iskander launchers driven by 15 year-olds who looked scared-shitless, 1 (one) T-34 and a few personnel carriers.
Dreadful. Watched it with a mate who loved the sport ten or so years ago. We had more interest in the Senior Snooker World Championship final. A sport is in trouble when the only thing raising excitement in the commentators is the battle for 12-14th places.
Yet another game in which Pujara fails to register a half century
(On all 8 occasions where he has reached 50 he's gone on to convert to 100+, 2 of which were doubles)