Putin to mark Victory Day as Russia intensifies attacks on east Ukraine

Russian servicemen march during a dress rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. The parade will take place at Moscow's Red Square on 9 May to celebrate 77 years of the victory in World War Two. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

President Vladimir Putin will lead anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany on Monday as Russian forces intensified attacks on Ukraine in one of the deadliest conflicts in Europe since the second world war.

The parade comes two days after Russian forces bombed a village school in eastern Ukraine killing about 60 people, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.