Russia commemorated the Soviet Union’s victory over Hitler’s Germany in 1945 with its traditional military parade on Thursday, the third such parade since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on hand at Moscow’s Red Square on a chilly morning amid light snowfall. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected Thursday’s parade. It is 79 years since the former Soviet Union, together with the United States and other allied powers, defeated Nazi Germany. However, Putin is increasingly using the commemoration of World War II to present the war he has ordered against …