What this year’s victory day in Russia was all about | DW News

In a speech from Red Square to mark Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the world is again at a “turning point.“ “Today, civilization is again at a decisive turning point. A real war has been unleashed against our Motherland,“ he said during a parade in Moscow on Tuesday. “The West forgot who defeated the Nazis,“ he said before going on to repeat his false suggestion that Ukraine is similar to Nazi Germany. The Russian leader still refers to the war in Ukraine as a “special military operation“ saying, “the future of our country depends on it.“ He said “Western globalist elites“ were sowing Russophobia and aggressive nationalism, while the Ukrainian people had become “hostages to a state coup“ and to the ambitions of the West. Putin insisted that the West’s “untamed ambitions, arrogance and impunity“ are to blame for the conflict he started when Russia invaded its neighbor over 14 months ago. Scaled-