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Mr Putin accused the trans-Atlantic military alliance of “openly preparing another punitive operation” in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian soldiers since 2014. He harked back to December 2021 - when fears were mounting in the West over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine - saying the Kremlin had proposed solutions that were rejected by Nato. Russia's ambassador to Poland was humiliated at a wreath-laying ceremony at a cemetery in Warsaw when protesters drenched him in red paint, which reportedly symbolised the blood spilt in Ukraine.ĭuring the parade, Mr Putin said despite Moscow’s differences with other nations, it had always worked towards international security.

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Mr Wallace, a former soldier, said “all professional soldiers should be appalled at the behaviour of the Russian Army”, and accused Moscow of staging an “illegal invasion” of Ukraine and carrying out war crimes. He also accused “western elites” of elevating “Nazism to the rank of state ideology”.īritain's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace hit out at the “absurdity” of Russian generals who flanked Mr Putin at the parade, “resplendent in their manicured parade uniforms and weighed down by their many medals”.

In a Victory Day speech in Minsk, Mr Lukashenko said Nazis are “flooding Ukraine with weapons, waging war on memorials, symbols and veterans”. AFPīelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Mr Putin, accused the West of supporting Nazi ideas and of being “at war with Russia” in Ukraine. Russian servicemen march in Moscow's Red Square during the Victory Day military parade on Monday. “The state will do everything to take care of these families.” “The death of every soldier and officer is painful for us,” he added. “You are fighting for your motherland, its future,” he told troops fighting in Ukraine. Mr Putin compared the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine to “the heroes of the Great Patriotic War”, a term used in Russia to describe the conflict along many of the eastern fronts of the Second World War, during which the Soviet Union lost 27 million people. He evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in the Second World War to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine but acknowledged the cost in Russian lives as he pledged to help the families of fallen soldiers. Mr Putin told the thousands of troops gathered that Russian forces in Ukraine were continuing the battle against Nazism, but it was important “to do everything so that the horror of a global war does not happen again.” The black-and-orange ribbon is Russian military symbol traditionally used to commemorate the soldiers who died during the war.

Mr Putin donned a ribbon of Saint George on the lapel of his coat.

Liz Truss 'horrified’ after Russia bombs Ukrainian schoolĬelebrated annually on May 9, Victory Day marks Russia's defeat of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.