Vladimir Putin condemns external threats to weaken and divide Russia
Vladimir Putin condemns external threats to weaken and divide Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday remembered Soviet valor in World War II by urging his military to victory in ukraine,
Addressing the mass of soldiers on Red Square 77th anniversary of victory On Nazi Germany, Mr. Putin denounced external threats to weaken and divide Russia, and reiterated his familiar arguments to justify his invasion:that NATO was threatening Right next to your limits.
He addressed the soldiers fighting in Donbas region of eastern Ukraine Which Russia has pledged to “liberate” from Kyiv.
“Protecting the homeland when its fate is being decided has always been sacred,” he said. “Today you are fighting for our people in the Donbass, for the security of Russia, for our Motherland.”
Mr. Putin’s 11-minute speech attack day 75 made no assessment of progress in the war and did not indicate how long it might continue.
He has repeatedly compared war – which he has presented as a fight against the dangerous “Nazi”-inspired Nationalists The Soviet Union faced a challenge during the invasion of Adolf Hitler in 1941.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that it is Russia that is staging a “bloody re-enactment of Nazism” in Ukraine.