Russia has canceled this year’s March of the Immortal Regiment, traditionally held on May 9 after the military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over the Nazis in Red Square, for security reasons. “When you’re dealing with a state that actually promotes terrorism, it’s better to take precautionary measures,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, referring to Ukraine. This is reported by Ria Novosti.
During the March of the Immortal Regiment, the descendants of those who fought against the Third Reich carry photos of their relatives. President Vladimir Putin also attended last year and showed a photo of his father.
In addition, on the 78th anniversary of the defeat of the Third Reich, Putin sent a special message to the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the two breakaway republics on Georgian territory Abkhazia and Ossetia of the south. “Today – the message says – it is our moral duty to preserve the sacred traditions of friendship and reciprocity
support handed down from our fathers and grandfathers, do not allow the historical truth about the Great Patriotic War to be distorted and do not allow the justifications of the Nazis, their accomplices and their contemporary ideological heirs to be justified”.
In Russia’s Belgorod region, local authorities are reporting “massive shelling by Ukrainian forces. The city of Zhebekino was attacked, there are four wounded,” reported the governor of Belgorod Vyacheslav Gladkov, quoted by RIA Novosti. “Today,
Shebekino was hit by massive shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The first attack did not cause any damage, the second had an explosion near three residential buildings: 4 people were injured,” said Gladkov. The town of Shebekino is located four kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
The Ukrainian bombing follows a night of massive Russian raids that focused on Kiev and Odessa but reached many regions of the country. According to the Defense Ministry, Russian forces have shelled 10 regions in the past 24 hours, hitting 127 settlements and 139 infrastructure. At least 3 people are reported dead and 28 others injured. In the Kiev region, the raids lasted about 4 hours: “The air defenses worked and no hits were successful,” the bulletin says. Bushfires were recorded around and in the Ukrainian capital, extinguished immediately, caused by the debris of downed drones and damage to various cars, with no casualties.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said Russia fired 60 Iranian-made kamikaze drones at Ukrainian targets last night, including 36 in the capital, and all were shot down. However, the debris hit homes and other buildings, injuring at least five people.
Last night was the biggest Russian attack on Kiev since the invasion began, Klitschko told the media as he stood at the spot where one of the drones shot down over the capital crashed. “Thanks to our air defense forces, all 36 drones were shot down. This is the most massive attack on our city since the beginning of the war,” he said, quoted by UNIAN, noting that nobody died while 5 people were killed. was hurt. “Nobody is in danger of death,” he explained, also referring to damage to residential buildings, a kindergarten and a school.
As a result of the Russian bombing in the Odessa region, a warehouse with humanitarian aid from the Red Cross was destroyed. Assistance has been discontinued. This was announced by the press office of the Red Cross, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda. “The warehouse with an area of a thousand square meters was completely destroyed. The fire completely destroyed humanitarian aid to the Odessa region, which was in the camp,” says the Red Cross, whose representatives were not present at the time of the rocket attack.
Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commemorated the anniversary of the victory over the Third Reich, declaring that Russia will be defeated “in the same way” as Nazism was in 1945. “All the evil that modern Russia brings will be be defeated in the same way Nazism was defeated,” Zelenskyy said on social media, repeating his pledge to “liberate” all Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow’s forces.
ANSA agency
Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrates the victory over Nazism in a message to the leaders of the former Soviet republics, emphasizing the need to stand up to the “current ideological heirs” of Nazism (ANSA).
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Four days after two intercepted drones blew up over the Kremlin, Moscow’s security services said they had foiled a new sensational Ukrainian attack in the heart of Russia.
For his part, Air Force Colonel Yuri Ignat, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda, announced that Russia had fired up to 8 X-22 cruise missiles in the Odessa region, some of which failed to reach their target. “In the Odessa region there were 7 aircraft and up to 8 launches of Kh-22 cruise missiles, some of them flew to the Odessa region, some objects were hit, the rest of the missiles did not reach their targets (perhaps by self-destroy, maybe they just fall due to their aging, because these are obsolete Soviet missiles).”