The Russia Day concert, an annual tub-thumping Red Square performance, is canceled for the first time in 23 years. The marquee annual air show is canceled. The Victory Day parade was notably lower key. Ukraine’s expanding drone campaign is taking its toll on big, splashy Kremlin-backed events.

The event, scheduled for June 12, has been quietly moved to the Mossovet Cultural Centre in eastern Moscow, while most of the star-studded lineup originally announced will no…

The Russia Day concert, an annual tub-thumping Red Square performance, is canceled for the first time in 23 years. The marquee annual air show is canceled. The Victory Day parade…

Putin used Russia Day to project strength, but his remarks exposed how Ukraine has reshaped the battlefield four years into Moscow’s invasion.