Putin says Russia is fighting in Ukraine like it did in WWII
Russian President Vladimir Putin has justified his hesitant 10-week invasion of Ukraine as a battle comparable to the fight against Nazi Germany as he presided over his annual display of military might in Moscow’s Red Square.
“Today, you are defending what our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for,” Putin said in a speech before the military parade on Monday, flanked by World War II veterans at the May 9 Victory Day celebration that marks the German defeat in 1945.
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This year’s exhibit includes 11,000 troops and weaponry, including tanks, air defense systems and nuclear missile launchers. A planned overflight of military planes and helicopters was canceled due to cloudy weather conditions, state news service Tass reported, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has justified his hesitant 10-week invasion of Ukraine as a battle comparable to the fight against Nazi Germany as he presided over his annual display of military might in Moscow’s Red Square.
Some Western officials had suggested that Putin could use the anniversary of World War II to formally declare war on the conflict that the Kremlin calls a “special military operation.” This would allow Russia to order a massive mobilization, which could help revive the stalled campaign. The Kremlin has denied such plans and Putin did not mention them in his speech.
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“You are fighting for the motherland, for the future, so that no one forgets the lessons of World War II, so that there is no place for executioners, persecutors and Nazis,” Putin said. He insisted that the conflict with Ukraine and the NATO nations that are supplying Ukraine with arms was “inevitable”, claiming it was in response to preparations to attack Russian separatist-controlled Donbas and invade the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. annexed by the Kremlin in 2014. Ukraine and its allies reject it.
Putin has made the triumph of the Soviet Union in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War, in which 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union died, a touchstone of his efforts to stir up patriotic sentiment. This year, with tens of thousands of soldiers fighting in Ukraine and Russia facing unprecedented sanctions from the United States and its allies, the event has taken on even greater importance. Putin said that Russia is fighting “neo-Nazis” in Ukraine, a claim that kyiv and its allies dismiss.
The Russian leader, who attacked Ukraine after his pro-Western leadership moved toward closer ties with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has so far made no significant progress in the war as the United States and Europe increase arms supplies to the military. from Kyiv. The former Soviet nation is now receiving heavy weaponry, including tanks and artillery.
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Putin’s only major military triumph so far is the still-incomplete fall of the southern port city of Mariupol after weeks of siege and shelling that killed at least 20,000 civilians, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian fighters continue to hold out at the city’s giant Azovstal steel plant.
“This war is presented as a war for the memory of World War II, a war against ‘Nazis’ and those who honor Nazis, a war to allow ‘decent’ Russians and Ukrainians to remember the victory of 1945 the ‘right’ way (ie the Russian way),” said Jade McGlynn, a Russia expert at the University of Oxford.
limited progress
Russia is expected to stage a small-scale World War II event in Mariupol, where the city of 450,000 was destroyed.
This year’s parade in Moscow is smaller than in recent years, and the Kremlin did not invite any foreign leaders. In 2005, when Russia commemorated the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, more than 50 foreign leaders attended, including US President George W. Bush, French President Jacques Chirac and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
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Putin’s closest ally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who allowed his territory to be used for the offensive, stayed in his capital Minsk to preside over World War II victory celebrations. . In an interview with the Associated Press published last week, Lukashenko admitted that the Russian assault “has dragged on” much longer than he expected.
Before the Moscow event, state television showed military parades in smaller Russian cities, marking May 9 as a public holiday.
In April, Russia abandoned efforts to seize kyiv.
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