At last minute, three more heads of state decide to attend Putin’s parade – Yahoo! Voices

Rehearsal before the May 9 parade in Moscow

It reads that Rahmon will go to Moscow on an official trip at Putin's invitation and will take part "in the celebrations dedicated to the 78th anniversary of Victory Day."

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Earlier, the press secretary of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Ruslan Zheldibay announced on his Facebook page that the Kazakh leader would attend the parade in Moscow.

Zheldibay wrote that in addition to the parade in Moscow, Tokayev would visit the Rzhev Memorial in Russias Tver Oblast to honor the memory of Kazakh soldiers of the 100th and 101st infantry divisions, and the mass grave in the village of Trubino, where his uncle Kassym Boltaev is buried.

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The Russian side invited the heads of the CIS member states to this event," the statement said.

The website of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan also posted a short message saying that Pashinyan would attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow at Putin's invitation.

On April 24, the Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported that the only foreign leader expected to attend the May 9 Victory Day celebrations in Moscow was Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov.

After that, the Kremlin tried to justify international isolation on May 9 by saying that "no one was invited."

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Most regions of Russia decided against holding a military parade on May 9 so as not to "provoke" Ukrainians.

According to UK intelligence, one of the reasons for the cancellation of the May 9 parades in Russia is the heavy losses of the Russian army.

In 2022, not a single foreign leader came to Moscow to celebrate Victory Day. The Kremlin also claimed that no one was invited at the time.

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