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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 8th of May.

Ukraine says Russia is still attacking despite declaring a three-day ceasefire.

Vladimir Putin is gathering his allies in Moscow to mark 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Europe is also celebrating VE Day, and India and Pakistan have accused each other of new drone attacks.

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Vladimir Putin has been gathering his allies in Moscow as Russia marks the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

But the Kremlin is concerned about security after a series of Ukrainian drone attacks closed the city's airports.

The Victory Day parade in Red Square on Friday is of huge importance for President

Putin, and he even declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire to try to make sure it goes smoothly,

as Kremlin advisor Andrei Fyodorov explained.

Russia seriously is concerned about possibility of attack by Ukraine drones tomorrow tomorrow May 9th, which is a celebration

day, week, three day. And yesterday, as you might know, 509 drones attacked Russia. So this is

the concern of our leadership. The ceasefire was supposed to start at midnight Moscow time, but the Ukrainian military said

Russian troops continued to attack in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian MP and serving soldier,

Sviathoslav Yorash, accused Russia of lying again.

We see Russia as being a disingenuous actor as it always was, and pretending there's doing something while doing nothing.

And the truth is that, again, we are the first country to desire peace.

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