In Moscow, a parade was held in Red Square in honor of the 78th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The broadcast was made on the website of the first channel.
The commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces General of the Army Oleg Salyukov commanded the parade, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu hosted the parade.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and leaders of seven foreign states attended the podium:
- President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko
- President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
- President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov
- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon
- President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov.
After passing the parade squads of military personnel and cadets, military equipment appeared on Red Square – its historical and modern samples. The T-34 tanks were the first to pass. Tiger-M, a division of Iskander-M high-precision missile systems, S-400 Triumph air defense system, Yars missile system launchers, Boomerang wheeled armored personnel carriers also participated in the parade .
Putin said in his speech that today civilization is once again at a turning point.
“A real war has again been unleashed against our homeland. But we repelled international terrorism, we will protect the people of Donbass, we will ensure our security,” the president said.
Putin noted that for Russia there are no hostile and hostile peoples “neither in the West nor in the East”. Yet, according to him, Western globalist elites still talk about their exclusivity, excite people, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism. All this is done with the aim of imposing their own rules on other peoples, “and in fact – a system of violence, theft and repression”, the president stressed.
“They seem to have forgotten what the Nazis’ senseless claims for world domination led to. They forgot who defeated this monstrous and utter evil,” Putin said.
He added that in a number of countries, “ruthlessly and in cold blood”, they destroy memorials to Soviet soldiers, create a cult of Nazis and their accomplices. According to the president, it is also a crime and “blatant revenge by those who cynically and openly prepared a new campaign against Russia” and “brought together neo-Nazi scum from all over the world for it”.
“Their goal – and there is nothing new here – is to bring about the disintegration and destruction of our country, to erase the results of World War II, to finally break the system of global security and law internationally and to strangle all sovereign centers of development,” Putin said.
Exorbitant ambitions, arrogance and permissiveness turn into tragedy, he continued. “This is precisely the reason for the catastrophe that the Ukrainian people are currently experiencing. It became hostage to the coup and the criminal regime of its Western masters that had grown on its foundations,” Putin said.
The Head of State also addressed separately the participants of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. “There is nothing more important now than your combat work. The security of the country rests on you today, the future of our state and our people depends on you,” he said.
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