He did not address the challenges facing Russia as its forces prepare for an expected major counter-offensive by Ukraine, or outline any path to victory. "We have repulsed international terrorism, we will protect the inhabitants of Donbas (in eastern Ukraine), we will ensure our security," said Putin, who was joined in Red Square by leaders of several ex-Soviet republics. "We want to see a peaceful, free and stable future," Putin said, adding that memorials to Soviet soldiers were being destroyed in a number of countries. However Putin also paid tribute to the armies of the United States, Britain and others which had fought the Nazis, and also to China's fight against the Japanese.Īlong with the 1812 defeat of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, the crushing of Nazi Germany is Russia's most revered military triumph, though both catastrophic invasions from the west left Russia deeply sensitive about its Western borders. It is 75 years since the then USSR defeated Nazi Germany. In his speech, Putin said "Western globalist elites" were sowing Russophobia, while the Ukrainian people had become "hostages to a state coup" and to the ambitions of the West. Russia is celebrating its biggest public holiday, Victory Day, with a military parade in Moscow that was meant to be held on 9 May. This anniversary falls less than a week after Russia accused Ukraine of attacking the Kremlin citadel with two drones in an attempt to kill Putin. Under Putin, they became a muscular display not only of marching battalions but also of Russia's latest weaponry, including warplanes, tanks, and nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles. Russia's first elected president, Boris Yeltsin, made Victory Day parades an annual event from 1995 onwards. The way the Soviet Union and then Russia mark victory over Nazi Germany has changed over the years: the first was ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in June 1945 but May 9 was a normal working day between 19, when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ordered a 20th anniversary parade. Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germanys unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday,, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last shots fired on the 11th. In Moscow it was already May 9, which became the Soviet Union's "Victory Day" in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. In a surprise admission of unreliability, Moscow cut Russia’s Air Force from several 2022 Victory Day Parades, high-profile military spectacles commemorating the surrender. on May 8, 1945, marked as "Victory in Europe Day" by France, Britain and the United States. Taking the salute is Russian Defense Ministe. Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 p.m. This is the parade on Moscow's Red Square devoted to the 76th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.
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