For Russian President Vladimir Putin, there was no victory on Victory Day, just a jumble of lies and excuses in a short speech on Red Square on Monday - lamely trying to justify his war in Ukraine and the death and destruction he has wrought, including thousands of Russian soldiers killed in action.Ĭalling the war a “righteous battle for Russia,” Putin repeatedly invoked his country’s role in World War II, blithely ignoring how in little more than two months his invasion of Ukraine has written a new history, in which he is the modern face of fascist autocracy and Russia’s soldiers are not liberators but murderers, rapists, torturers, and occupiers.
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