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Odesa strikes and Moscow's display of captured tanks
Summary
A look back at two reports from 1 May 2024, as Russian missiles hit a Ukrainian port city and Moscow showed off captured NATO equipment.
What did the war look like on the eve of 2 May 2024? Two reports from 1 May 2024 offered contrasting images: a deadly missile attack on a Ukrainian port and a military exhibition in the Russian capital.
On 1 May 2024, two Russian ballistic missiles struck Odesa, a port city. Three people were killed and sixteen others were injured.
The same day, Russia put captured NATO military vehicles and equipment on show at an open-air exhibition in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. Among the vehicles displayed were a German Leopard 2 tank and an American M1 Abrams tank.
Taken together, the reports from 1 May 2024 showed the war being fought on two levels: strikes that cost civilian lives in Ukraine, and a public showcase in Moscow of Western-made equipment taken in the fighting.
