{"id":33060,"date":"2023-05-09T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=33060"},"modified":"2023-05-09T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:44:13","slug":"putin-gives-speech-at-moscow-victory-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/09\/putin-gives-speech-at-moscow-victory-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin gives speech at Moscow Victory Day parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vladimir Putin has told Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine that the \u201cwhole country is praying for them\u201d, as he used his Victory Day speech to defend his invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Russian president drew historical parallels between the second world war and fighting in Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday, civilisation is again at a decisive, turning point, a real war has been unleashed against us again,\u201d Putin said in a speech that was laced with anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are proud of the participants of the special military operation. The future of our people depends on you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin accused the west of \u201cdestroying traditional values\u201d and propagandising a \u201csystem of robbery and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe goal of our enemies, and there is nothing new here, is to achieve the disintegration and destruction of our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"b1ae9dca-9442-4d4f-b86f-395d5b405b27\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b0973d577e8fa94ec8d134d12703bc0dde4b4559\/0_159_4530_2719\/master\/4530.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=85&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow.\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow. Photograph: Gavriil Grigorov\/Sputnik\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 500 Russian soldiers who fought in Ukraine were present at the parade, according to state media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six leaders of former Soviet states were also present. In a surprise move on Monday, the heads of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Armenia \u2013 three post-Soviet countries that Moscow strives to keep in its orbit \u2013 announced that they would attend the military parade on Red Square alongside Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHere is to our victory!,\u201d Putin exclaimed before returning to his seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin has told Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine that the \u201cwhole country is praying for them\u201d, as he used his Victory Day speech to defend his invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Russian president drew historical parallels between the second world war and fighting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11261,7138,8116,3577,66,5252,5572,5340,3773,10043,11542,3805,71,12751,5217,5659,5618,10041,5180,6348,10885,10042,694,5251,36,594],"class_list":["post-33060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-armenia","tag-destruction","tag-future","tag-germany","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-moscow","tag-nazi","tag-nazi-germany","tag-orbit","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-robbery","tag-russian","tag-russian-soldiers","tag-soldiers","tag-speech","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-victory","tag-victory-day-parade","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}