HAPPENING NOW: Victory Day parade gets underway in Moscow pic.twitter.com/JV5w7opKBj
— Sputnik Not (@Sputnik_Not) May 9, 2022
Russia celebrates the 77th Anniversary of Victory Day. pic.twitter.com/8LPOeHPbWA
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) May 9, 2022
A 120-second review of the Russian Victory Day Parade. pic.twitter.com/gRvEQLvS9B
— Zhang Heqing张和清 (@zhang_heqing) May 10, 2022
Regrettably, Putin did not use May 9 celebrations to officially declare war on the Ukraine.
Maybe that isn’t regrettable – I don’t know. The operation is moving along.
The issue is that the Ukraine is not in a vacuum and the West is flooding the country with weapons and troops.
But I’m sure Putin knows what he’s doing.
At least we got an awesome new Z flag.
That reminds me of, um. Never mind, I forget.
Putin’s speech included parts about the invasion of the Ukraine.
PUTIN SPEAKS AT VICTORY DAY — DOESN’T LOOK LIKE HE JUST HAD CANCER SURGERY pic.twitter.com/37V65YL2bF
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) May 9, 2022
He said it was a preemptive attack in defense of Russia.
RT:
Russia’s military operation in Ukraine was a preemptive move against future aggression, President Vladimir Putin has outlined during his address at the Victory Day parade in Red Square in Moscow on Monday.
Putin not only praised the achievement of the Soviet people during World War II, but also addressed the Kremlin’s reasons for the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Russia had to act because a large-scale offensive against the breakaway republics in the eastern Donbass region was being planned, he claimed.
“We saw the military infrastructure unfolding [in Ukraine]; hundreds of foreign advisers starting their work; there were regular deliveries of the most modern weapons from NATO countries. The danger grew every day,” the president explained.
“Russia gave a preemptive rebuff to aggression – this was a forced, timely and the only right decision by a sovereign, strong and independent country,” he added, referring to the launch of the military operation.
“Despite all the disagreements in international relations, Russia has always advocated the creation of a system of equal and indivisible security,” Putin continued.
He cited Moscow’s attempts to engage in dialogue on security guarantees with Washington late last year, which failed to yield results.
“NATO countries didn’t want to hear us, which means that, in fact, they harbored completely different plans, and we saw it,” he elaborated. There were open preparations for a punitive operation in the Donbass and “an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea,” Putin insisted, adding that Kiev also announced plans to restore its nuclear capabilities.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US has increasingly spoken of ‘American exceptionalism,’ Putin pointed out. By spreading those ideas, Washington is “humiliating not only the whole world, but also its satellites, which have to pretend that they don’t notice anything and humbly accept it all. But we are a different country,” he insisted.
“Russia has a different character, we’ll never give up on our love for our Motherland, on our faith and traditional values and customs of our ancestors; on respect for all peoples and cultures.”
It was a beautiful parade in Moscow and in other parts of Russia, as well as in liberated parts of “Ukraine” people places.
For the first time in 8 years veterans of WWII in Melitopol could publicly celebrate #VictoryDay without being attacked by neo-Nazis… #Ukraine️
— Vera Van Horne (@VeraVanHorne) May 9, 2022
Visual of President Putin arriving in Red Square For Victory day parade pic.twitter.com/mTvYypT9tz
— Koustuv 🇮🇳 🧭 (@srdmk01) May 9, 2022
The missiles were great and the BBC itself called it “a reminder.”
“It’s a reminder to the world… that Russia has got so many strategic missiles… it’s a force to be taken seriously,” @FrankRGardner says
Russia parades nuclear missiles past President Vladimir Putin as part of Victory Day in Moscowhttps://t.co/kFcGP8DPxD pic.twitter.com/mt9EchiuF7
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 9, 2022
Not sure why everyone needs reminded – it would have been very easy to just not mess with Russia in the first place. Then no one would need to be reminded.
We could all just live in peace. Unless we live in a Western country, in which case we are being harassed by violent blacks, virus hoaxes and forced vaccines, and schools and children’s entertainment companies trying to turn our children into homosexuals.
Meanwhile, in yet-to-be-liberated “Ukraine,” old men were humiliated by the Zelenskyites.
"A Ukrainian police officer forced a Second World War veteran off the parade square in Odessa. He was there to merely celebrate Victory Day." pic.twitter.com/geDiGVmYmI
— Dreaming of Peace (@cjsienna55) May 10, 2022