Chris

Number of vehicles on parade

2021: 197
2022: 131
2023: 51

Simply because the rest of their vehicles are all either blown to pieces, or in the process of bring blown to pieces, in Ukraine.

The uniformed personnel were mostly cadets or students at military universities.

And there was no fly-past because low-flying aircraft in tight formation are too vulnerable to attack, and it is now abundantly clear that partisans of one sort or another are operating more or less at will in and around Moscow.

Putin has thoroughly raped his own homeland. The Russian military has been eviscerated, and the whole world can now see it.