Vietnam sends soldiers to participate in parade at Red Square

Soldiers take part in the Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2024. Illustration photo: THX/TTXVN

Showing regularity, unity, and power

Major General, Associate Professor, Doctor Nguyen Van Thanh, Vice Principal of Army Officer School 1, said that, implementing the direction of the Minister of National Defense , over the past few days, the school has organized forces and actively trained and practiced for the participating forces, aiming to improve the qualifications, command movements, and coordination ability of the forces participating in the parade. Thereby, demonstrating the discipline, unity, and strength of the Vietnam People's Army as well as the desire to build a peaceful, friendly, cooperative relationship for mutual development with international friends.

According to Major General Nguyen Van Thanh, according to the plan, the school organized training for the forces participating in the parade on the contents of individual and block team regulations, ensuring correctness, uniformity, beauty, unity, regularity, and strength. The training was carried out step by step: Basic training and practice for each person, each row; comprehensive practice by block and general rehearsal, and approval.

The delegation of the Army Officer School 1 to Russia to participate in the parade consists of 80 people, expected to depart from April 23, 2025. Of which, the parade group has 73 soldiers (68 official members and 5 reserve members), accompanied by leaders in charge, training teachers, doctors, interpreters and security guards. The soldiers participating in the parade group are aged 19-30, 1m80 or taller. These are officers, lecturers and students with balanced physiques, performing command movements quickly, strongly and accurately.

Honored to be assigned special mission

Taking on the role of Block Leader, Lieutenant Tran Xuan Bach, lecturer of the Sports Department (Army Officer School 1) said that the whole block started practicing from March 22 this year with a training intensity of 9 hours per day; 4.5 hours in the morning, 2.5 hours in the afternoon and 2 hours in the evening. The soldiers' training process took place in hot, rainy and windy conditions, practicing all days of the week, without days off... Although the training time in Vietnam is not long, the whole block is always determined to improve their techniques to meet the requirements of the mission.

Maintain effective bilateral defense cooperation mechanisms

To commemorate and remember the heroic victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, military parades are often held in the capital Moscow as well as in major cities, where the headquarters of the Russian armed forces are located. The first Victory Day parade on Red Square took place on June 24, 1945. Since then, the parade has been held in even-numbered years (1965, 1985, 1990), on May 9, the day Nazi Germany signed the protocol confirming its unconditional surrender to the Allied representatives in Berlin.

Since 1995, the Victory Day Parade has become an annual event. Traditionally, the parade forces are divided into regiments, battalions and companies, according to type and service, followed by military convoys, tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled vehicles, new and modern weapons.

In December 2024, during a meeting with General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense of Vietnam in Hanoi on the occasion of the 7th Defense Strategy Dialogue, Senior Lieutenant General Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, on behalf of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, respectfully invited General Phan Van Giang and the military to attend the parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War in the Russian Federation.

General Phan Van Giang affirmed that the people and the Vietnam People's Army always remember and appreciate the great support and assistance that the Russian Federation has given to Vietnam in the struggle for national independence and reunification as well as in the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland in the future.

On December 22, 2024, the Russian Ministry of Defense sent a delegation to attend the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Vietnam People's Army, the 35th Anniversary of the National Defense Day and the Vietnam International Defense Exhibition 2024; as well as sending leading Russian defense enterprises to attend and display products at the exhibition, thereby contributing to the overall success of the exhibition. At the Anniversary, Vietnam also welcomed a delegation of Russian veterans who had helped Vietnam to attend.

As a pillar field playing an important role in the overall traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and the Russian Federation, bilateral defense cooperation has achieved many good results in recent times, especially in the following areas: Exchange of delegations at all levels; effectively maintaining existing cooperation mechanisms; promoting personnel training; cooperation between armies, services and units of the two countries' Ministries of Defense; scientific research cooperation within the framework of the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center; cooperation in news agencies, military television, military history, military museums; cooperation in multilateral activities organized by each country's Ministry of Defense and coordination at international multilateral mechanisms and forums on defense...

VNA

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