Russia s might as every year. not just to showcase the country s nuclear arsenal, which it does every year by parading intercontinental missiles across red square in the heart of moscow. but it can be used by the russian president as an opportunity to make a significant statement of some kind about the current conflict in ukraine, what russia calls its special military operations. speculation, it could be used as an opportunity to formally declare war on ukraine by russia, which would give russia the ability legally to mobilize more of its forces and bring them to bear inside ukraine. the kremlin has rejected that as nonsense. that was the word that the kremlin spokesperson dimry peskov used, dismiss pentagon the idea that this will be a special announcement on a victory day on may the 9th, regarding the special military