Putin (with XI) to the parade on the Red Square: “Truth and justice on our side” | EUROtoday

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In the phrases of Vladimir Putin, the exaltation “of the triumphal events” of 80 years in the past is the omen of a second victory that’s but to come back, however which is definite. “We remember the lessons of the Second World War, and we will never accept the distortions of those facts, the attempts to justify the executioners and to lie on the real winners -said the Russian president intervening to the military parade of 9 May on the Red Square -. Russia has been and will be an unwavering barrier against Nazism, Russian, anti -Semitism. Truth and justice are on our side ».

And here, but only in this phrase of a shorter and less aggressive speech than in the past three years, Putin has referred to the ongoing war in Ukraine. “The entire nation, the corporate, the folks assist the individuals within the particular navy operation united -said the pinnacle of the Kremlin -. We are happy with their braveness and their willpower, of that temper that has all the time led us solely to victory ».

The phrase “Ukraine” doesn’t pronounce, nor does it seek advice from the United States with which the Kremlin has began a cautious method, of which Putin is intent on taking the measures. He subsequently avoids condemning the “collective West” straight, as previously. Although, within the stands behind Putin, the visitor of honor amongst overseas leaders is the Chinese president Xi Jinping, in a drappe of 27 overseas leaders who got here principally by the standard allies of the previous Soviet republics in addition to – amongst others – from Brazil, Egypt, Serbia, Venezuela. And Slovakia with Prime Minister Robert Fico, the one chief of the European Union current. It is the {photograph} of a assist with which Putin nonetheless exhibits the world that he’s not remoted. Although not everybody, among the many overseas leaders, have pinned the black and orange ribbon of San Giorgio on the jacket, now an emblem of the Russian navy energy.

The parade on the pink sq.

Alongside the departments of the Russian Army, the safety providers of the FSB and the National Guard, launched for the primary time by the Defense Minister Andrej Belousov, paraded on the Red Square 13 guards of honor of pleasant nations: essentially the most quite a few contingent, with 102 males, is that of the Chinese standard military. There are additionally about 1,500 troopers who served the entrance towards Ukraine. Followed by the procession of missile and artillery programs, 200 -armed and armored tanks. From drone -free drones programs, current for the primary time. The flight of six bombers concluded the parade, leaving the Russian tricolor within the wake.

Beyond the efficiency of autos and navy pressure, within the present warfare within the current world Putin has no names of victorious battles with which to skirt its intervention. In Donbass, within the face of marginal territorial beneficial properties, Russia continues to lose greater than a thousand males on common, each day. Putin’s speech thus prefers to return quickly to the previous, leaning the pinnacle “in front of the generation that has crushed Nazism, at the price of millions of human lives has conquered freedom and peace for all humanity”.