Ukrainian drone strikes have raised anxiety across Moscow ahead of this year’s May 9 parade on Red Square, which Vladimir Putin will watch with other leaders.

Events to mark the holiday in the occupied territories seem to be an effort to show Russian control of land it has captured.

President Vladimir Putin noted that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would discuss bilateral and global issues at their summit in Moscow, as well as Russia’s supply of oil and gas to China, and cooperation within BRICS — the bloc of developing economies that initially included Brazil,