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Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak from Moscow’s Red Square at the start of a massive military pageant to mark Victory Day, a commemoration of the Soviet Union’s World War II victory over the Nazis. Ukrainian officials have speculated he may used the event to formally acknowledge that the two countries are at war.

The parade began with eight goose-stepping soldiers in dress uniform bearing the Russian flag and red Soviet-era victory banner.

Cities across Russia are joining the pageantry, with Vladivostok and Novosibirsk in the country’s far east were among the first to see parades of service personnel.

Celebrations are also expected to take place in Russian-occupied cities in Ukraine. Last week, Russian forces were seen preparing for a parade in the shattered port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said. Preparations come amid reports that an airstrike on a school in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine left dozens buried under the rubble and feared dead. The attack in the village of Bilohorivka could rank among the deadliest strikes on civilians in Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.

Here’s what else to know

• President Biden and other leaders of the Group of Seven nations on Sunday pledged to phase out the use of Russian oil and gas or institute outright bans. European Union ambassadors are still struggling to reach a consensus on a separate proposal to phase out Russian oil imports.
• First lady Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine on Sunday as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Kyiv, visits that were meant to underscore the West’s support.
• A senior American diplomat on Sunday visited the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, whose personnel had departed a few days before Russia’s invasion in February. The visit did not signal that the United States has officially reopened of the embassy, though the Biden administration plans to do so.
• The Washington Post has lifted its paywall for readers in Russia and Ukraine. Telegram users can subscribe to our channel.

Ukraine is rebuilding cities as fast as Russia destroyed them

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BUCHA, Ukraine — The mere sight of a child here — wearing sunglasses, pulling a scooter, bugging his mother to buy him candy — was enough to impress Petro Trotsenko, a stall owner at a market in Bucha that reopened this past week.

Just over a month ago, the market lay bare, looted of all its wares, cut up by shrapnel. The nearby glass factory where Trotsenko, 74, worked in his younger years was being used as a torture chamber by Russian soldiers occupying this suburb of Kyiv. The bodies of 22 people from his neighborhood, summarily executed over the course of March, lay where they had fallen in the streets. Nearly every yard was filled with rubble, burned-out vehicles and makeshift graves. Nearly every family with children had fled.

Trotsenko and his wife, who hid for weeks in their basement, burned wood from the fence that surrounded their house to boil rainwater. That’s how they cooked the gruel that kept them alive.

But in about the same amount of time as the Russians occupied Bucha, the city has remade itself. The market is open, and Trotsenko has restocked. Huge divots in roads where the shells fell have been paved over. The suburban train to Kyiv is running again. Water and electricity have been largely restored. Families are returning.

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