Russian victory day parade 20147/23/2023 ![]() ![]() That "prize" could be Mariupol, the beleaguered port city that has been the site of some of the worst fighting and bombing since the war began, though there is no hiding that the war has not gone to plan. "In a way, that would be tantamount to revealing to the world that their war effort is failing, that they are floundering in their military campaign and military objectives." Controlling the narrativeĭuring the past ten weeks of war, many analysts have pointed to May 9 as a key marker, a date where Putin will have to show the Russian people a "prize" from the war, which is only referred to in the country as a "special military operation." "That would be a great irony if Moscow used the occasion of Victory Day to declare war, which in itself would allow them to surge conscripts in a way they're not able to do now," State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters recently. The British armed forces minister recently said that Russia will "probably" use Victory Day as an opportunity to formally declare war on Ukraine, but the Kremlin has denied this. "Their aim is to achieve the disintegration and destruction of our country, cross out the results of World War II, finally break the system of global security and international law, strangle any sovereign centers of development," he claimed.MORE: War in Ukraine brings dual crisis to global food supply The Russian leader said the West follows the approach "to continue to dictate, to impose their will, their rights, rules on the peoples - in essence, a system of robbery, violence and suppression." ![]() He said the West "still talks about its exclusivity, pit people and split society, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism, and destroy family and traditional values that make a person human." Putin said "exorbitant ambitions, arrogance and permissiveness" turned into a " tragedy," which he claimed to be the reason for "the current catastrophe in Ukraine." Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu takes part in a military parade on Victory Day to mark the 78th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/pool. For Western countries, however, it is a war of aggression and they have imposed severe sanctions in response. Moscow started its "special military operation" in Ukraine last year in February to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine. The 2014 Maidan protests in Ukraine, which Moscow claims were supported by the West, had led to the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, who was viewed as pro-Russian. "The Ukrainian people became hostages of the coup d'état and the criminal regime of its Western masters that had developed on its basis, a bargaining chip in the implementation of their cruel, selfish plans," Putin said in his address at the Victory Day parade in Moscow, a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. He called for Russia to be victorious: "For Russia, for our armed forces, for victory! Hurrah!" PUTİN: UKRAINIANS HAVE BECOME 'HOSTAGES' TO WESTERN INTERESTS Putin said the West had forgotten the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. "Today civilisation is again at a decisive turning point," Putin said at the parade, which included elderly veterans and soldiers from Russia's Ukraine campaign, adding: "A war has been unleashed against our motherland." Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech during the Victory Day military parade marking the 78th anniversary of the end of World War II in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2022. In a speech on Red Square as part of Russia's Victory Day celebrations, Putin said Russia wanted to see a peaceful future, and said the entire country was behind what Russia calls the "special military operation" in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said a "real war" was again being waged against Russia as he invoked the Soviet Union's victory in World War Two to say the West was trying to destroy his country.
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