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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 ....
obviously, there are very strict laws as we know in place right now, restricting what journalists in russia can say. what can you tell us about putin s speech and the reaction there. reporter: you re right. they are restrictive. we can t call what russia calls a special military operation in ukraine, we can t call it a war or invasion. i was in red square when that parade was taking place. i was sitting in one of the stands set up, you know, with vladimir putin, the russian president, as those soldiers marched past. there were 11,000 of them. it was an extraordinary display of patriotism and military might. the soldiers were followed by a parade of military vehicles including tanks and missile launchers and even those powerful, dreadful, intercontinental ballistic missiles that were every year pass on over the cobbles of red square in a show of dramatic military might. it was a little bit smaller than we had expected because of the bad weather, we re told. the kremlin ....
next to our borders. in ukraine this weekend, relenltless russian shelling, dozens now feared dead after a school where at least 90 people were said to be sheltering was bombed. in the southwest, russian forces firing several missiles into the odesa resquon. and we have new heartbreaking video out of mariupol. the city council says this video shows more mass graves. cnn able to independently verify who took this video and when. however, this is part of a broader pattern, civilian suffering and mass graves following. president zelenskyy delivered his own victory speech today sounding confident that his country will win this war. we are fighting for our children s freedom. and therefore, we will win. we will never forget what our an sets sorts did in world war ii which killed 8 million ukrainians. there thereby two victory days in ukraine and someone won t have any. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. is now weighing in. reacting to pooutsen s speech for the first time ....
they were not. and he repeats a lie by linking the fight now to the fight then. i am now addressing our armed forces and the militias of donbas. we are fighting for the mother land, for its future. so no one forgets the lessons of the second world war so there is no place in the world for executioners. in ukraine, they remember the victory over the nazis. ukraine s president, zelenskyy, promises ukraine will soon have another victory day to celebrate. translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine. and someone won t have any. we will win, and we will win now. happy victory over naziism day. in luhansk as many as 50 feared dead after a russian missile turned a school that was a shelter into a burning scrap heap. in mariupol, all women and children are out of the steel plant, but there s a new glimpse of the unrelenting horror in that port city. the next images are beyond disturbing. shallow graves for what looks like hundreds in a line of body ba ....