The example of the Soviet soldiers who gave their lives to defeat Nazism today "inspires the soldiers who carry out their duty in the special military operation" in Ukraine and "resist an aggressive force that is supported by the entire NATO bloc."

Russian President Vladimir Putin said this while speaking during the parade on Red Square marking the 81st anniversary of the victory in World War II. The event, which took place in a low-key manner and without the deployment of

military equipment, veterans of the conflict in Ukraine participated.

As is tradition, the event opened with a parade of a picket carrying the Russian flag and that of the Soviet Union, presented as the one raised in Berlin on the day Moscow's troops took control of the capital of the Third Reich.

Putin added that the country's fate will be decided not by the soldiers alone, but by the entire Russian people. "By remaining united, victory will always be ours," the Kremlin leader concluded.

(Unioneonline)

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