Sarmat, known by NATO as Satan II, is Russia's first post-Soviet 'super heavy' missile; Putin says it carries warhead 4 times bigger than any US missile, will deploy this year

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday voiced confidence of victory in Ukraine as he oversaw a military parade on Red Square commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II — a show that didn't include heavy weapons for the first time in nearly two decades.

It was a remarkable admission of weakness. In an effort to shield the parade, Putin sought a three-day ceasefire, succeeding in persuading President Trump to pressure Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into accepting it.

Aging, allegedly ailing Vladimir Putin has been mocked over his puffy, strangely altered face after the fearful, paranoid Russian dictator made a rare public appearance in Moscow over the weekend. The swollen-cheeked 73-year-old despot was spotted at an unusually quiet Victory Day parade to mark the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Russian President says the combined power of the Sarmat is more than four times higher than any Western counterpart

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is in a weaker position than at any previous point in the war in Ukraine, citing battlefield losses, mounting casualties and growing public dissatisfaction inside Russia.