The Russian president Vladimir Putinon Monday she will lead her celebrations 77th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, will warn the West about “Consequence” of the worlddemonstrating the overwhelming firepower of Russia, at the same time as its army is fighting in Ukraine.
Putin facing the deep isolation imposed on him by the West since he gave the order for Russian invasion of its neighborwill speak in Red Square before it begins the army paradetanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Ultrasonic fighters, Tu-160 strategic bombers will fly over St. Basil’s Cathedral, and for the first time since 2010, the aircraft type Il-80which is intended to transfer the top military command in case of nuclear war, according to Reuters, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense.
According to this scenario, the Il-80 aircraft is designed to become a command center for the Russian president. It is equipped with many technologies but the special details are still there state secrets of Russia.
The 69-year-old Kremlin leader has repeatedly linked the war in Ukraine to the challenge posed by the Soviet Union when Nazi Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
“Trying to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake that cost our people dearly,” Putin said on February 24 when announcing the “special military operation” in Ukraine, as he called it.
“We will not make such a mistake a second time, we have no right.”
Putin presents the war in Ukraine as a battle to protect Russian-speakers living there from Nazi persecution and to protect them from what he defines as an American threat to Russia stemming from NATO expansion. Ukraine and the West reject allegations of fascism as nonsense and say Putin is waging an unprovoked offensive war.
The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War II, more than any other country. Putin has been successful in recent years against the West, as Moscow sees the West trying to revise the history of the war to undermine Soviet victory.
Apart from the defeat of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812, the defeat of Nazi Germany is the most respected military triumph of the Russians, although the two catastrophic invasions made by the West made Russia particularly sensitive to its borders.
THE SHADOW OF UKRAINE
The war in Ukraine will greatly overshadow Victory Day.
The Russian invasion resulted in the death of thousands of people while about 10 million Ukrainians they were forced to leave their homes. It has also plunged Russia into the grip of harsh Western sanctions and heightened fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States, the world’s largest nuclear power.
Although the 11,000 troops that will parade in Red Square along with 131 weapons and military equipment, according to the Ministry of Defense, will be a great spectacle, the conflict in Ukraine has shown the weakness of the Russian armed forces despite Putin’s efforts during the during his twenty-year tenure to halt the weakening after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin did not achieve a quick victory in Ukraine and the Russian economy – which is under severe pressure from sanctions – is facing the worst contraction since the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Less than two decades ago, US President George W. Bush attended the May 9 celebrations at the invitation of President Putin. No foreign leaders have been invited this year, the Kremlin has said.
The United States and its allies have stepped up arms supplies to Ukraine, and Putin has called on some Russian troops to launch more firearms into Ukraine, two sources close to the armed forces told Reuters. Moscow has told the West that it considers the weapons it sends to Ukraine to be legitimate targets.
Ahead of May 9, rumors circulated in Moscow and the Western capitals that Putin was preparing to make a brief statement specifically on Ukraine, perhaps an explicit declaration of war or even a general mobilization.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov dismissed the allegations on Wednesday, calling them “nonsense.”
The Kremlin did not respond to a request for comment from Putin, who will address the Red Square in front of Lenin’s Mausoleum.
In his speech last year, Putin spoke out against the selectivity of the West, and against the rising trends of neo-Nazism and Russophobia, to which he returns again and again when referring to the issue of Ukraine.
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