Russian President Vladimir Putin will send a warning of “apocalypse” to the West as he leads the celebrations on Monday, the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany using Russia’s enormous firepower while fighting in Ukraine.
Defying the deep isolation of the West as he ordered the invasion of the neighboring country, Putin will speak in Red Square before a parade of soldiers, tanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
A flight over St. Basil’s Cathedral will include supersonic warplanes, Tu-160 strategic bombers and, for the first time since 2010, the “apocalyptic” Il-80 command aircraft that will carry Russia’s top echelon in the event of a nuclear war. The Department of Defense said.
In this scenario, the Il-80 was designed to be the mobile command post of the Russian president. It’s full of technology, but certain details are a state secret.
The 69-year-old Kremlin leader has repeatedly compared the war in Ukraine to the challenge faced by the Soviet Union when Adolf Hitler invaded the Nazis in 1941.
“An attempt to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War was a mistake that cost our people dearly,” Putin said on February 24, announcing what he calls a special military operation in Ukraine.
“We will not make such a mistake for the second time, we have no right to it.”
Putin describes the war in Ukraine as a war to protect Russian-speakers from Nazi persecution and to guard against the threat of US NATO enlargement to Russia. Ukraine and the West reject the fascism claim as absurd and say that Putin is waging a war of aggression for no reason.
Soviet Union, II. It lost 27 million people in World War II, more than any other country, and Putin has in recent years criticized what Moscow sees as attempts by the West to review the history of the war to downplay the Soviet victory.
Next to the defeat of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812, the defeat of Nazi Germany is the most revered military victory for the Russians, but both disastrous invasions from the west left Russia deeply sensitive about its borders.
source: Noticias
