Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko attended a military parade on Red Square in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War on 9 May. Aleksandr Lukashenko together with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign leaders laid a wreath and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin in Moscow. During the ceremony, the heads of delegations observed a minute of silence to honor the memory of the victims.
