The Russian president is seeking to use the event to depict himself as a global leader despite Western efforts to isolate him and a failure to win the war in Ukraine.

Prosecutors said the men had committed the “act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage” together and filmed it on a cellphone.

A huge parade in the Russian capital to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, attended by leaders of more than 20 countries, comes amid faltering attempts to end the war in Ukraine.

At times during weeks of thorny negotiations, the efforts of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government seemed destined to fail.

The House minority leader would much rather talk about Medicaid and taxes than looming autocracy.