President of Russia, Vladimir Putin assured Tuesday that his country is in the midst of a “real war” declared by the West. whom he accused of forgetting the lessons of World War II, when Nazi Germany also sought world hegemony.

“A real war has been unleashed against our Motherland again. But we are resisting international terrorism, and we will also protect the people of Donbass and guarantee our security,” Putin said on Red Square during a military parade in honor of Victory Day.

Accompanied by ninety-year-old veterans of the world war, but isolated from the rest of the world, Putin used the most important date of the Russian calendar to announce to the soldiers fighting in Ukraine, whose victory is more than in doubt at this moment in the campaign.

Putin assured that “Now nothing is more important for the Kremlin” than a “special operation” on whose success, he admitted, the security and future of the country depended.

In fact, the parade was preceded by a new night bombing of Kyiv a few hours before the arrival of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in the city.

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From his pulpit next to Lenin’s mausoleum, he once again taught the West a lesson in history, warning that, as happened with Hitler, “unlimited ambition, arrogance and permissiveness inevitably lead to tragedy.

“We regard any ideology of superiority as inherently abhorrent, criminal and deadly. Instead of, globalist elites continue to defend their exclusivity, pit people against each other and divide societiesprovoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism,” he stressed.

He accused the Western powers of “imposing their will, their rights, their rules” and, in fact, of creating a “system of robbery, violence and oppression” that also destroys “the traditional values ​​that make a man a man”. .”.

“It seems they have forgotten what the insane desire of the Nazis for world domination led to, destroying that monstrous and absolute evil (…) and not sparing their lives for the liberation of the peoples of Europe,” he said, referring to the Red Army.

Except, the accusation of some “revanchist” countries, clearly alluding to Poland and the Baltic states, of preparing a “new campaign against Russia”, the purpose of which would be to bring about its dissolution.

Kremlin isolation

In an effort to avoid completely isolating the head of the Kremlin, at the last minute the leaders of several former Soviet republics were asked to add up to seven leaders, among whom the most notable was Russia’s main ally in Ukraine, Belarusian Alexander Lukashenko.

Putin too congratulated the Ukrainian, Moldovan and Georgian peoples on Victory Day, but not their leaders, who he is facing.

Since the 60th anniversary of the Victory (2005), when US President George W. Bush took part in the parade, the guest list has been reduced until Western leaders have completely disappeared.

The Russian leader did not hesitate in his speech to refer to Ukraine, who lives, in his opinion, in a “catastrophe”, but not because of the military intervention launched by Russia in February 2022.

“He is a hostage of a coup d’état, established as a result of a criminal regime and his Western masters. This is a trump card in the implementation of their cruel and mercenary plans, ”he said.

Terror in the rear

About 10,000 soldiers, including more than half a thousand fighters in Ukraine, paraded across the cobbled bridge square, but the day was cut short by stringent security measures put in place over fears of Ukrainian sabotage.

Russia displayed S-400 anti-aircraft batteries and Iskander cruise missiles terrorizing a neighboring country, in addition to Yars intercontinental missiles, but only one tank (the legendary T-34) crossed the square and military muscle exercises did not include traditional aerial parade.

The Immoral Regiment, the traditional procession with portraits of the fallen, an event in which Putin always participates, was also canceled because the risk was too great, and parades were suspended in more than twenty cities in European Russia.

In an unprecedented move, Red Square was closed to the public for two weeks. The decision was made before two supposedly Ukrainian drones damaged the dome of the Kremlin Palace, where Putin’s office is located, last week.

(EFE)