He delivered his speech to the leaders of around twenty nations, who stood in the stands in the Red Square. This Friday, During the military parade of May 9 in MoscowVladimir Putin assured that “the whole” of Russia supports the offensive in Ukraine.
The Russian president also claimed that his country will fight against “Nazism, Russophobia and anti -Semitism”. Once again, as for more than three years, he thus mentioned the memory of victory over Nazi Germany to justify the military offensive against Ukraine. Vladimir Putin assures, in his propaganda, wanting to “denazify” this neighboring country whose Russia occupies around 20 % of the territory.
European ministers present
For the fourth year in a row, the “Victory Day” is commemorated in the middle of war in Ukrainetriggered by the Russian invasion in February 2022. If, last year, The celebrations were limitedthis time, Vladimir Putin saw things big.
Several allies or partners of Russia have made the triplike the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Delegations from Kazakhstan, Belarus, Vietnam, Armenia, Cuba and Venezuela also made the trip.
Despite the policy of isolation advocated by the Westerners, the Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, – defying the injunctions of the European Union – and the Serbian head of state, Aleksandar Vucic, were also on site, as well as the president of the Bosnia Serbs, Milorad Dodik, wanted by Bosnian justice.
In front of them paraded some 11,000 soldiersincluding 1,500 soldiers who fought in Ukraine, according to the state agency TASS.
The streets of the Russian capital are flooded in national colors and the vast majority of businesses and restaurants have placarded posters calling for “remembering” the victory of 1945 and to be “proud”. May 9 is the main patriotic high mass in Russia and other ex-Soviet republics.
