The supreme commander of the Armed Forces presided over the event after taking office on Tuesday as head of the Kremlin for a fifth six-year term. In his speech, he criticized Western revanchism.
During the Victory Day parade over Nazi Germany, Russian President, Vladimir Putinhas called for prevent the outbreak of a global conflict amid growing military tensions with NATO.
“Russia will do everything possible to avoid a global confrontation. But, at the same time, we will not allow anyone to threaten us,” Putin said during his speech to soldiers participating in the current military campaign in Ukraine and veterans of the Second World War. gathered in Red Square.
Putin has assured that Russia rejects claims of exclusivity “from any country or alliance”, in clear reference to the US and NATO. Furthermore, he has warned that Russian strategic forces are “always” in combat readiness.
Putin has once again admitted that Russia is in a “difficult period” of its history and that the fate of the country depends on victory on the Ukrainian battlefield. “The destiny of the country, its future, depends on each of you,” he told the soldiers who formed in front of the Kremlin walls.
Furthermore, he has accused “Western elites” of betting on “revanchism” and justifying “the current followers of the Nazis” in Ukraine and other countries.
According to the Russian leader, all this is part of a Western policy of instigation of conflict regional, hostility between peoples and religions, and the containment of new independent centers of development.
Putin has denounced the attempts of “neocolonialists” of “distorting” the truth about World War II by dismantling monuments to Soviet soldiers and putting Hitler’s “traitors and accomplices” on a pedestal.
However, he stressed that Russia has never underestimated the importance of the role of the “second front”, that is, of the Western allies in the defeat of Nazism, also remembering China’s fight against Japanese Imperialism.
Putin has received his nine foreign guests in the Kremlin, to whom he has assured that Russia will cooperate with those countries that respect international law and an “indivisible” security system.
Putin has also taken advantage of the presence in Moscow of the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to announce that that country will participate in the current tactical nuclear weapons exercises near Ukraine. “Given that non-strategic nuclear weapons are deployed on the territory of Belarus, we proposed on this occasion to our friends and allies (…) to participate in one of the phases of these exercises. The corresponding orders have already been given to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff,” he stated.
In fact, this Tuesday the Belarusian Armed Forces already began a surprise inspection of its nuclear forces with the participation of Iskander systems and a squadron of Su-25 aircraft, which triggered alarm in kyiv.
Putin ordered on Monday the start of these missile maneuvers in the Southern Military District, which also includes the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia).
Source: Eitb
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