Pro-Kremlin commentators have openly talked of nuclear strikes on the West as the war in Ukraine has progressed. Significantly, there was no repetition of previous threats to respond with violence to Western interference. No major announcements - or threats - from Putinĭespite fears that Monday’s speech by the Russian president could mark the start of another escalation in the fighting in Ukraine, with a potential general mobilisation or a formal declaration of war, the speech passed without any major new announcements. We will not let anyone annex this victory, appropriate it," he said. "We are proud of our predecessors who, together with other peoples within the framework of the anti-Hitler coalition, defeated Nazism. Speaking before Moscow's military parade, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would not let Russia "own the victory over Nazism" in 1945. Putin himself has been branded a "war criminal" by US President Joe Biden. Kyiv has accused Moscow of employing Nazi-style tactics in Ukraine and investigations are underway nationally and internationally into multiple allegations of war crimes and other atrocities committed by Russian forces. The assertion that Russia is acting to rid Ukraine of "Nazis", often repeated by Russian leaders, is ridiculed in the West and in Ukraine, where far-right influence is marginal at best. So that there is no place in the world for executioners, punishers and Nazis," Putin said. You are fighting for the Motherland, for its future, so that no one forgets the lessons of the Second World War. "I am now addressing our Armed Forces and the Donbas volunteers.
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