Ushakov announced the list of leaders participating in the Victory Day Parade in Moscow

It is expected that 29 leaders from invited countries will attend the parade in Moscow on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This was announced on May 6 by Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

According to him, the heads of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Venezuela, Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Egypt, Zimbabwe, China, Congo, Cuba, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Palestine, Serbia, Slovakia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, as well as South Ossetia.

India, Indonesia, Nicaragua, South Africa will be represented at a high level. The event will also be attended by the Secretaries General of the SCO, the CIS, the EAEU, the CSTO, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the African Union Commission and the Union State of Russia and Belarus, as well as the president of the New Development Bank and representatives of other organizations.

In addition, crews from Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Belarus, Egypt, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan will take part in the Victory Day Parade.

"The heads of all diplomatic missions accredited in our country have been invited to the parade. The heads of the defense departments of a number of states have also been invited... I would also like to note the presence of veterans from a number of foreign countries at the parade, and in particular, I would like to note that there will be veterans from Israel and the United States," Ushakov said.

Three official visits of foreign heads of state to the Russian Federation will take place from 7 to 10 May. In total, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold over 15 bilateral meetings and a number of talks in the format of "on your feet."

It is specified that on May 7, the head of state is scheduled to hold talks with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Mongolian President Uhnaagiin Khurelsukh, as well as the head of the Republic of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay an official visit on May 8. During it, intergovernmental and international documents will be signed, and then the heads of state will address the media. Subsequently, the Russian president will meet with other leaders of the countries. A rich program and an official reception in the Kremlin have been prepared for all of them.

On May 9, Putin is scheduled to have talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic, Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

On May 10, the Russian president will meet with his Abkhaz counterpart Badra Gunba, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other leaders.

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The country's main Victory anniversary parade will traditionally take place on Red Square in Moscow. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted on April 30, the high-level representation of many countries at the Victory Day Parade in Moscow indicates that they share the importance of the May 9 holiday. In his opinion, Russia has not just allies, but states that are close in spirit and ideology.