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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 ....
the big plan to have 77 aircraft flying over red square to commemorate the 1945 victory over nazi germany did not happen. the kremlin blamed bad weather. regardless, this year s victory day is an ominous show of defiance and irony. the british secretary said putin and generals are mirroring the fascism of 77 years ago. ukraine s president releasing a video message as putin was speaking. volodymyr zelenskyy saying that his country will soon have two victory days, away from the pageantry and rhetoric, the russian military is inflicting more pain and suffering on the ukrainian people. 60 are feared dead after ukraine says russia bombed a school where nearly everyone from a village was taking shelter. a survivor told cnn s sam kiley how he escaped. i got slammed down by a slab, then another explosion, small rocks sprinkled darkness. i looked and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergey crawled out, then he dug me out. dug uncle tolio out, aunt ira out, we craw ....
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 ....
welcome to mtp daily. i m garrett haake in for chuck todd. as fighting in ukraine intensifies, putin is trying to justify the war he started. president zelenskyy is vowing to win the war and president biden is urging his own officials not to leak information to the media to prevent the u.s. from being completely drawn into the war. in eastern ukraine, officials fear 60 people were killed in an airstrike on a school where people were sheltering in what could be among the deadliest attacks on civilians since the war began more than two months ago. meanwhile, ukrainian officials say all civilians have been evacuated from the steel plant in mariupol where they had been holed up alongside ukrainian troops for weeks. i delaware spite russian claims of victory, the last remaining ukrainian forces continue to hold out in that steel plant. in moscow today, president putin defended his country s invasion during a vem cel brags of victory day. the celebration of the soviet union ....
surprise visit to a ukrainian school and meeting with ukraine s first lady. at around the same time, canadian prime minister officially reopened canada s embassy in the capital. the two leaders also took part in a crucial call with joe biden and g-7 counterparts who vowed to phase out russian imports. on the other side, we just learned a russian deputy visited mariupol, a city russia has been trying to take over for two months. he s now the highest ranking russian to set foot there since the war began. that visit coming hours before the victory paid in russia. they will commemorate the soviet defeat of the nazis in world war ii. it s a stark contrast to the war being waived by russia today. russian forces bombed a school in eastern ukraine. dozens of civilians were sheltering at that school. cnn s sam kiley spoke to survives. reporter: to to putin is what a modern victory looks like. dozens dead or missing from a russian air strike on a russian-speak village as part o ....