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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 ....
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 ....