here in the studio is emily sherman? i am showing emily was our moscow correspondent until judge about a was forced to leave russia just shortly after the invasion of ukraine. emily, your impression of vladimir putin speech? i think a lot of it was not unexpected in the sense that, you know, it's usual for letting me put into a course. remember the victims of what is known as the great patriotic war in russia to honor their memory. as he said, they were sacrificed to save russia and europe from nazi germany. but what i think was interesting was the power allows that he drew to the car and as he called it, a special military operation, that's what the war in ukraine is known as in russia. and he now this, at this parade today, there were actually members of the armed forces that fought in ukraine, presents that's what the kremlin said in advance. so he took the opportunity to thank them and also to portray them as also taking part in this decisive battle for the russian in fatherland. a defensive bottle, as he painted it o

emily sherman, you. um, so put this in for us by to force emily, you've covered a number of these parades before in the past as, as are corresponded in in moscow when you look at what we've just seen today on red square. oh, how do you put that in context? of these, the previous years, where is russia today in, in this, in this development, historical development, looking back at the past 78 years. while i think what was interesting in comparison to previous years considering that russia is involved in a full scale, you know, war and ukraine is that this parade was actually pretty normal. the amount of soldiers was pretty standard, $10000.00 soldiers on red square, a $115.00 items of military, you know, equipment. that's what they said. and that's a pretty standard amount. so anyway, this is russia showing look, despite the fact that we're still involved in this war. and despite the fact that there has been some rumors about ammunition shortages about russia, struggling to keep up, keep things up despite