Putin vowed to win and claimed that the fate of Russia’s soldiers fighting in Ukraine “rests on” their success.
At the Red Square Victory Day parade in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the world was at a “turning point” and that a “war” had been declared against Russia.
He declared that Russia would win and said that its forces’ future in Ukraine “rests on” their success.
15 months into Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, a customary Soviet-style celebration commemorating Moscow’s victory over the Nazis was held despite security concerns.
Picture of Russia and Ukraine War
At the parade, which also featured elderly veterans and soldiers from Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, Putin declared that “civilization is today at a decisive turning point once again. He declared, “A war has broken out against our motherland.He urged victory for Russia: “For Russia, for our armed forces, for victory! Hurrah!”
The Russian president has been portraying the war in Ukraine as an existential one that the West has intensified by backing the Ukrainian government. According to him, during the march in Red Square, Putin informed the hundreds of soldiers who were taking part in Moscow’s operation in Ukraine that “the whole country is with you.”
You are currently responsible for the nation’s security, as well as for the state of our people and our state in the future. In his tirade against “Western globalist elites,” Putin also charged them with fomenting uprisings and “coups” throughout the world.
Their goal, and there is nothing new here, is to achieve the collapse and destruction of our country, he declared.
The long-serving head of Russia pledged that Moscow will triumph against this.
In the lead-up to the Victory Day parade, a key event under Putin’s administration, this appeared to be a reference to a historically unparalleled wave of assaults on Russian soil.