Russia stages its annual Victory Day parade on Red Square on Tuesday amid particularly tight security after a series of drone attacks, including on the Kremlin citadel, the symbolic heart of the Russian state, that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine. | Reuters
“People have to know what our great-grandfathers, our grandfathers, and grandmothers went through… as many are beginning to forget what May 9 is and what it stands for.”Russians’ security concerns have grown over the past week following drone attacks targeting fuel depots and freight trains, while media on Sunday also reported overnight multiple blasts across Russian-occupied Crimea.
Moscow also blamed Kyiv and the West for a car bombing on Saturday that wounded a prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, in a village about 400 km east of Moscow. His driver was killed in the blast. Kyiv has said it expects increased efforts by Russian forces to take the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut ahead of Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations.Putin casts the Ukraine war as an existential battle for national survival, just like World War II, saying Russian forces are fighting Ukrainian “Nazis” in the pay of a hostile West which wants to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
In Soviet times, Victory Day commemorations were more low-key, with the emphasis on honoring veterans and their huge sacrifices, which are seared into older Russians’ folk memory.
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