Russia is celebrating Victory Day and President Vladimir Putin is using the occasion to justify his actions in Ukraine.
Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "Today we celebrate Victory Day over Nazism. We are proud of our ancestors who together with other nations in the anti-Hitler coalition defeated Nazism. And we will not allow anyone to annex this victory. We will not allow it to be appropriated."
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Militärparade in Moskau erinnert an Sieg im Zweiten Weltkrieg
In Moskau hat die traditionelle Militärparade zum Gedenken an den Sieg im Zweiten Weltkrieg stattgefunden. Putin nutzte sie, um den Krieg gegen die Ukraine als angebliche Fortsetzung des Kampfes gegen Nazis darzustellen. Von Björn Blaschke.
On Thursday #Russia will celebrate Victory Day, its commemoration of the defeat of #Nazi#Germany in 1945. Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid #Brezhnev created a cult of victory. Russia under #Putin has continued the tradition.
Abroad, this is intimidation. We are meant to think that Russia cannot lose.
Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world — and for its own sake.
#Putin’s a ‘Nazi,’ #Zelenskyy says as #Russia intensifies attacks on energy grid ahead of Victory Day
“On Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II Day, Nazi Putin launched a massive missile attack on #Ukraine," the country's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement Wednesday morning. "The entire world must understand who is who. The world must not give a chance to new Nazism."
The mafia supposedly asked cui bono (who benefits?) when trying to figure out who was behind a hit. There is no evidence that #Russia’s Vladimir #Putin had anything to do with #Hamas’s horrific slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians last year. But Russia has been a leading beneficiary. To reach that conclusion, you have only to ask, cui malo (who loses?).
@realTuckFrumper#Putin must be paying MTG's Ted Cruz-trained, rabid Libertarian dog and chief of staff Nick Dyer a lot for him to lower himself to using Neanderthal MTG. They are a Trumpian match made in the Ninth Level of Hell.
This is Alexei Miller, CEO of Russian Gazprom, at Putin's inauguration yesterday.
I wonder what he's thinking of, considering that Gazprom has been having record financial losses recently, and a string of mysterious deaths among Gazprom top managers in recent years.
◾️ During Putin's inauguration, music from A Life for the Tsar opera played.
◾️ Patriarch Kirill called Putin "Your Highness" and wished him to rule until his death.
◾️ Putin has a throne in his personal church.
Independent Ukraine has chosen to celebrate VE-Day with the rest of Europe in order to differentiate herself from the current fascist scourge threatening her existence."
"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.
I never thought I'd hashtag Ukraine & the South China Sea in the same post 😬
#Russia is the top supplier of weapons to #Vietnam and also plays a crucial role in the exploitation of Vietnam's gas reserves in the #SouthChinaSea, in waters that #China claims as its own.
The #EU, an important trading partner for Vietnam, has imposed wide-ranging sanctions on #Moscow over its war in #Ukraine.