Russia Victory Day: Putin denounces West during parade speech
Hours after launching fresh bombardments on Ukraine, the Russian president accused the West of ‘unleashing war against Russia’
President Putin railed against the West as he oversaw a muted Victory Day parade stripped of three essential ingredients: tanks, aircraft and Russian success in Ukraine.
He used the annual address marking the defeat of Nazi Germany to make a series of accusations against western powers, claiming they had provoked conflict, sown hatred and destroyed family values, as he sought to make the case for his faltering war.
Hours after launching a new barrage of cruise missiles at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, Putin accused the West of “unleashing war against Russia” after “forgetting who defeated the Nazis” and “creating a new cult of Nazism” through the destruction of Soviet memorials in eastern Europe.
He accused “globalist elites” of making the Ukrainian people “hostages to
