The commemoration of the end of world war II, on May 9, was always the Soviet Festival par excellence. At the time of the disappearance of the USSR, 33 years ago, thousands of veterans and citizens who had suffered the horrors of that war that was primed with the lives of more than ten and a half million people could still be celebrated. The Russia of today no longer has those direct witnesses although with millions of citizens who heard the stories of their parents and grandparents. One of them, Vladimir Putin, presided yesterday in the Red Square the parade surrounded by the main flat of his country’s army and accompanied by bosses of more than twenty states, such as the presidents of China, Xi Jinping; from Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro; from Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; from Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic; and the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, among others. Yesterday’s party was much more than the celebration of the end of the Great World War. Putin knew it and that’s why everything was calculated to the millimeter to get perfect. The world was going to see it through television and opportunities like that Russia has not had many since its attacks on Ukrainian soil began.
More than three years have passed. Russia is in mind that it is a country at war and did not let the opportunity to reaffirm in its military campaign in Donbás. This was recalled in his speech by stating that “the whole country, society, the people support participants in the special military operation.” Emphasizing that the people who represent “are proud of their courage.” Finally, the Russian president has said that “Russia has been and will be an indestructible barrier against Nazism.”
In that rostrum of Lenin, military arrived from that new conflict that Kremlin has not stopped comparing with World War II for their fight against fascism were present. More than 10,000 Russian soldiers accompanied by military from thirteen countries participated in the parade. In honor of the Chinese president Xi Jinping, guest of honor of Putin, a Chinese honor guard paraded in front of those congregated. 183 military teams, some used more than eighty years ago, who crossed the red square accompanied by others that are currently in operation in that space operation. The act was led by the famous T-34 tanks and the SU-100 self-propelled artillery units, although without a doubt the stars of the same were the intercontinental ballistic missiles YARS, which have a range of up to 12,000 kilometers. They also paraded state-of-the-art drones, such as the Gueran-2 or the ESPÍA ORLÁN drones. The party has been prepared conscientiously throughout the country and the parades have been held in the main Russian cities. The security measures have been extreme because of the threat that Ukraine launched some attack. The kyiv government has ruled out any attempt to attempt against the celebration lamenting that Russia is not complying with the high fire unilaterally during the three days of celebration of victory day until tomorrow.
From Ukraine they have reported that their president, Volodimir Zelenski, and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, have maintained a conversation in which they would have agreed to reach a truce of at least 30 days, in the conflict of the Donbas, with extraordinary sanctioning measures by Washington if the Kremlin refused to accept it. The proposal has been seen with good eyes by the European Union, but Putin’s decision that should respond in the next few hours is missing.
-On the other hand, Kremlin confirmed yesterday that Russia and the United States have addressed during their normalization negotiations the possible resumption of gas supplies to Europe, suspended since the beginning of the war in Ukraine more than three years ago. “We are dealing with that issue,” said Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin International Advisor, to local media.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said this week that the European Union (EU) must do “everything possible” to stand her refusal to import Russian gas in order to consolidate the position of Ukraine for future peace conversations.
«Some continue to say that we should reopen gas taps and Russian oil. This would be an error of historical proportions and we will not allow it to occur, ”said Von der Leyen in a speech before the Plenary of the European Parliament.
The official referred to the position of Hungary and Slovakia that they want to continue imported Russian energy.
