Waves of Ukrainian drones have hit Moscow in recent days as the Russian capital prepares for the country's most important national holiday, Victory Day, this week. Russia celebrates May 9 as Victory Day to mark the defeat of Nazi forces in World War II. The day involves a major military parade, with leaders of Russia's allies often in attendance. But this year, the run-up to the day has been clouded by a warning from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has said Kyiv cannot guarantee the safety of the foreign leaders attending the parade in Moscow. Here is more about Ukraine's attacks, Victory Day and why it is significant. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday that Russia's air defence systems shot down 19 drones flying towards Moscow from different directions.

Along with the development of chatbot, language models and speech technologies, there is a growing possibility and interest of creating systems able to interface with humans seamlessly through natural language or directly via speech. In this paper, we want to demonstrate that placing the research on dialog system in the broader context of embodied intelligence allows to introduce concepts taken from neurobiology and neuropsychology to define behavior architecture that reconcile hand-crafted design and artificial neural network and open the gate to future new learning approaches like imitation or learning by instruction. To do so, this paper presents a neural behavior engine that allows creation of mixed initiative dialog and action generation based on hand-crafted models using a graphical language. A demonstration of the usability of such brain-like inspired architecture together with a graphical dialog model is described through a virtual receptionist application running on a semi-public space.