Live Updates: Russia celebrates the end of World War II as Putin justifies starting a war in Ukraine WRVO | By NPR News Published May 9, 2022 at 9:20 AM EDT Facebook Flipboard LinkedIn Email Anton Novoderezhkin / SPUTNIK/AFP Via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after a Victory Day military parade today in central Moscow.