MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Friday it did not know whether there would be a parade in Mariupol on May 9 to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory in World War Two, but that the time for celebrating Victory Day there would come.
Russian forces say they have captured Mariupol despite ongoing resistance from Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region city’s Azovstal steel plant.
“The time will come to mark Victory Day in Mariupol,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing on Friday according to Reuters, when asked about plans for May 9 in territory recently seized by Russian-backed forces.
Information that Russia is stealing grain from Ukraine is likely to be fake, Peskov said on Friday, after a UN food agency official said there were signs that Russia had been trucking grain out of occupied regions of its neighbour.
“We have no information, it appears to be fake,” Peskov said.
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