The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has justified in his speech the “special operation in Ukraine” because The West was “preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea”. Before hundreds of soldiers and military leaders and in a speech broadcast throughout the country in celebration of the Day of Soviet Victory over the Nazis in World War II, Putin has put patriotic sentiment on the table.
And he highlighted that Moscow “proposed a security agreement between Russia and Europe in December”. “Russia asked the West for an honest dialogue to reach reasonable and compromise solutions, taking into account the interests of all. It was in vain. They did not want to listen to us. They had completely different plans. We can see it,” she argued.
“We have seen how military infrastructures are deployed, how hundreds of foreign experts worked in Ukraine, how they were supplying NATO weaponry. The danger was growing every day. Russia carried out a preventive attack, it was a necessary measure and the only possible one in this situation. A decision of a sovereign and independent country “, he has defended her.
The danger was growing every day. Russia made a pre-emptive strike
“Our duty is to remember those who crushed Nazism (…) and do everything possible to let the horror of a global war not be repeated“, has added.
Thus, the Russian leader has affirmed that the Russian troops and the Donetsk and Lugansk militias are fighting for their homeland, for their future so that no one forgets the lessons of World War II, so that “there is no room for the Nazis”. “Today the Donbas militias together with the Russian Army are fighting on their own land (…). Now I am addressing our troops and militias in Donbas: they are fighting for their homeland, for their future, so that no one forgets the lessons of World War II, so that there is no room for the Nazis,” Putin said in his speech on Red Square.
On the other hand, Putin has emphasized that Russia “will never put aside love for the country, faith and traditional values”. “In the West, apparently, they have decided to cancel these ancient values. This moral degradation is the basis for the cynical falsification of history of World War II, inciting Russophobia, applauding traitors and making fun of the memory of the victims”, he criticized.
NATO calls for an immediate end to the war
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has urged the Russian president to end the war and resume peace negotiations, while assuring that the Alliance will continue to support Ukraine. “I again call on President Putin on the occasion of May 9 to immediately end the war, withdraw his troops from Ukraine and start peace negotiations. We stand firmly on the side of Ukraine and will continue to help the country assert its right to self-defense,” he said in a statement published today by the newspaper ‘Welt’.
At the same time strongly rejected Moscow’s accusations that NATO is behaving “aggressively”. “For more than seven decades we have been able to prevent war for our allies. NATO is a defensive alliance, and the current crisis demonstrates that it is vital that Europe and North America remain united in NATO to ensure peace and preserve the values of freedom and democracy,” he said. He stressed that the Alliance, like the European Union, was built on the “ruins of World War II to prevent war.” He recalled that Moscow in the past has regularly used the May 9 commemoration to “spread falsehoods about the West and criticize NATO.” “I assume that Putin will once again spread lies about NATO and the West as a whole on May 9 this year,” he added.
Zelenski: “Soon there will be two days of victory”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski has assured that “very soon there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine”, alluding to the victory he hopes to achieve in the current conflict with Moscow. Only “a madman” can want to repeat what happened in World War II and anyone who repeats crimes like those that occurred then is imitating Nazi philosophy, Zelenski denounced in the speech published on his website on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of Victory over Germany Day.
Source: Lasexta
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