NO NEW VICTORYīut Putin had no victory to announce in Ukraine and his 11-minute address was largely notable for what he did not say. He was addressing Russia on one of its most important annual holidays, when the nation honours the 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in the struggle to defeat Adolf Hitler - a source of national pride and identity. "The death of each one of our soldiers and officers is our shared grief and an irreparable loss for their friends and relatives," said Putin, promising that the state would look after their children and families. So that there is no place in the world for executioners, castigators and Nazis," he said. "You are fighting for the Motherland, for its future, so that no one forgets the lessons of World War Two. He directly addressed soldiers fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which Russia has pledged to "liberate" from Kyiv's control.
24 - that NATO was creating threats right next to its borders. LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two to inspire his army fighting in Ukraine, but offered no new road map to victory and acknowledged the cost in Russian soldiers' lives.Īddressing massed ranks of service personnel on Red Square on the 77th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, Putin condemned what he called external threats to weaken and divide Russia, and repeated familiar arguments that he had used to justify Russia's invasion on Feb.
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