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Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Monday leading the celebrations of the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, will warn the West of the “consequence” of the world, showing the overwhelming Russia's fire brigade, at the same time as its army is fighting in Ukraine, reports Reuters.
Faced with the deep isolation the West has imposed on it since it ordered Russia to invade its neighbor, Putin will speak in Red Square before the parade of troops, tanks, rockets and rocket launchers begins. of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Ultrasonic fighters, Tu-160 strategic bombers and, for the first time since 2010, the Il-80 aircraft, which is intended to carry the highest military command in the event of a nuclear war, will fly over St. Basil's Cathedral. The Russian Ministry of Defense.
According to this scenario, the Il-80 aircraft is designed to become a command center for the Russian president. It is equipped with a host of technologies, but the details are still a state secret of Russia. attacked the Soviet Union in 1941.
“The attempt to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake that cost our people dearly,” Putin said on February 24 when announcing the “special military operation” in Ukraine, as he called it. >
“We will not make such a mistake a second time, we have no right.”
Putin presents the war in Ukraine as a battle to protect Russian-speakers living there from Nazi persecution and to protect them from what he defines as an American threat to Russia stemming from NATO expansion. Ukraine and the West reject allegations of fascism as nonsense and say Putin is waging an unprovoked offensive war.
The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War II, more than any other country. Putin has been successful in recent years against the West, as Moscow sees the West as trying to reconsider the history of the war in order to downplay Soviet victory.
In 1812, the defeat of Nazi Germany was the most respected military triumph of the Russians, although the two catastrophic invasions from the West made Russia particularly sensitive about its borders.
THE SHADOW OF UKRAINE
The war in Ukraine will greatly overshadow Victory Day.
The Russian invasion killed thousands of people and forced some 10 million Ukrainians to flee their homes. It has also plunged Russia into the grip of harsh Western sanctions and heightened fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States, the world's largest nuclear powers.
Although the 11,000 troops that will parade in Red Square along with 131 weapons and military equipment, according to the Ministry of Defense, will be a great spectacle, the conflict in Ukraine has shown the weakness of the Russian armed forces despite Putin's efforts during the during his twenty-year term to halt the weakening after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin did not achieve a quick victory in Ukraine, and the Russian economy – which is being severely pressured by sanctions – is facing the worst contraction since the years following the fall of the Soviet Union.
US President George W. Bush the youngest, less than two decades before, had attended the May 9 celebrations at the invitation of President Putin. No foreign leaders have been invited this year, the Kremlin has said.
The United States and its allies have stepped up arms supplies to Ukraine, and Putin has called on some Russian troops to launch more firearms into Ukraine, two sources close to the armed forces told Reuters. Moscow has told the West that it considers the weapons it sends to Ukraine to be legitimate targets. for Ukraine, perhaps an explicit declaration of war or even a general mobilization.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov on Wednesday dismissed the allegations as “nonsense.” The Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment. The Red Square in front of Lenin's Mausoleum. and again when referring to the issue of Ukraine.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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