Ukrainian drone strikes have heightened anxiety across Moscow ahead of this year’s May 9 parade on Red Square, where President Vladimir Putin will be watching with other leaders.

Russia on Friday paraded combat drones that its forces use in the war in Ukraine on Moscow's Red Square in what state TV said was a first. President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and more than two dozen other foreign leaders looked on as various truck-mounted Russian-made drones were driven across the vast square on their launchers,

Russian air defence forces downed two Ukrainian drones flying towards Moscow, the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday the Telegram channel Shot, which has sources in Russia's law enforcement agencies,