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commemorates the soviet victory over nazi germany during world war ii. it is also really a memorial to those killed during the war. in all, the soviet union lost 27 million people, more than any other nation. but under putin s leadership, victory day has taken on a new edge, serving as a showcase as we have senior after year of russia s military power, russia s military might. as we look at these live pictures from red square, i want to bring in max there, the parade taking place right now. the bureau chief for the financial times, and he joins me now live from latvia. max, as you and i talk, we are looking at the parade in red square in moscow. clearly, as we have seen time and time again, you know, really images of russia s military might and military power. you ve covered these many times, i believe. give me a sense of what the meaning of this for the audience at home, but also abroad here. well, this is really part of this cult of soviet victory in world war ii th ....
minutes or so as russia commemorates the soviet victory against nazi germany in world war ii. these are live images coming to us from red square in moscow. mr. putin wrapped up his remarks about 45 minutes ago or so during victory day ceremonies, and during his speech putin defended russia s invasion of ukraine as necessary, claiming the west was creating threats next to russia s borders and preparing to invade. he also said that russian soldiers fighting ukraine are inspired by soviet troops who fought during world war ii. have a listen. translator: in kyiv they were talking about the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons. the nato bloc started developing territories adjacent to us and, therefore, in a planned way were creating an absolutely unacceptable threat immediately next to our borders. everything pointed to a collision with the nazis, with the nazis and that was inevitable. and that was supported by the west. well, the annual victory day holiday is al ....
the latest. welcome to the show, everyone. it s 9 a.m. here in ukraine, but all eyes are on moscow where russia s annual victory day parade is about an hour or so away. this is video from rehearsals from saturday. the holiday marks the defeat of nazi germany during world war ii but today under the shadow of a new war in europe, the event taking on new significance. it s been warned russian president vladimir putin could use this holiday to make a major announcement about the war in ukraine. the victory celebration comes one day after ukraine marked its own day of remembrance with president volodymyr zelenskyy accusing russia of failing to learn the lessons of world war ii. russia has forgotten everything that was very important to the victors of world war ii, but ukraine and the whole free world will remind it so that no one will forget so that really important words never again which are repeated all over the free world every year on the days of remembrance of t ....
that did not happen. the kremlin blaming bad weather for that. as putin was speaking in moscow, ukraine s president released his own victory day message. translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine, and someone won t have any. we won then, and we will win now. happy victory over naziism day. u.s. diplomats return to kyiv for the first time since the war began. it s a big step towards officially reopening the embassy. let s go right to cnn s matthew chance live for us in moscow. mat matthew, what stood out to you about putin s speech this morning is this. this morning? look, first of all, the atmosphere, the spectacle of the display of russian military might was as we expected it to be, quite dramatic. we saw thousands of russian troops on the cobbles of red square chanting patriotic slogans, military bans playing patriotic kind of war songs. there was a march passed and a salute taken by by president putin as the crowd cheered and applauded ....
ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, who declared the victory in the end will belong to ukraine. now, putin did not declare war or try to mobilize more troops, as analysts suspected. he also canceled the victory day air shows across russia that had been scheduled. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. believes this shows that putin recognizes that his war is not going well. president putin has recognized he has no victory to celebrate. his efforts in ukraine have not succeeded. he was not able to go into ukraine and bring them to their knees in a few days and have them surrender. he gave up on taking kyiv. in the east, ukrainians are fighting back in the luhansk region after russian units built multiple bridges over a key river. these could allow putin s forces to cut off supply routes to the region. ukrainian officials fear as many as 60 people are dead after they say russia dropped a bomb on a school over the weekend. let s turn to cnn s erin burnett in the cap ....