President Russia Vladimir Putin It is said that it will issue a “doomsday” ultimatum to Western countries in celebration of the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II on Monday (9/5).
Russia will reportedly hold a massive military parade in celebration tomorrow, including a parade of troops, tanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, various Russian warplanes ranging from the Tu-160 strategic bomber, supersonic jets, to the “doomsday” II-80 commando plane will show off flying over St. Cathedral. Basil tomorrow.
This military parade was held by Russia in the midst of its invasion of Ukraine since last February.
Putin is also rumored to be giving a speech in Red Square in front of the Vladimir Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow, during the military parade.
In the run-up to tomorrow’s Soviet Union Victory Day, speculation is circulating in Moscow and the West that Putin is preparing some kind of special announcement about Ukraine.
Some parties and the media believe that Putin is preparing a declaration of war or even a national mobilization.
However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the rumors and described them as “nonsense”.
Quoted ReutersThe Kremlin did not respond to requests for confirmation regarding what Putin would say in his speech tomorrow.
Putin satirized the West in a speech at last year’s celebration of the Soviet Union’s Victory Day. At that time, Putin raised fears of the rise of neo-Nazism and Russophobia in his speech, two issues that he currently uses as a pretext for invading Ukraine.
Putin has also repeatedly linked the war in Ukraine to the threat the Soviet Union faced in the face of the 1941 invasion of Nazi Germany.
“Attempts to meet the demands of the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War turned out to be a mistake for which our society paid a heavy price,” Putin said when announcing a special military operation to Ukraine on February 24 last.
“We won’t make a mistake like that a second time, we don’t have the right to make that mistake again.”
Putin himself views the war in Ukraine as a war to protect people of Russian descent who he claims face persecution and genocide in the former Soviet Union.
He also considered that the invasion of Ukraine was carried out to protect citizens from the threat of the United States.
However, Ukraine and the West dispute the claim and accuse Putin of waging an unwarranted war.
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