On May 9, former employees of the NKVD and KGB, who did not take part in World War II, sat next to Putin at a parade in Moscow

Russian media Agency. News reported that 98-year-old Yuriy Dvoikin was sitting in the photo to the right of the President of the Russian Federation.

He enlisted in the army as a volunteer in 1942 but did not make it to the front. In 1944, after graduating from sniper school, he was sent to the Lviv region as part of the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR) to "perform operations to eliminate the nationalist underground in Western Ukraine."

To Putin's left sat 88-year-old Gennady Zaitsev, born in 1934. He was called up for military service in 1953, after which he remained in the army and 6 years later began serving in the KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR). He also led the group of the 7th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in Operation "Danube"; under his command, the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Prague was captured.