By Russia Today

Russia’s military operation in Ukraine was a preemptive move against future aggression, President Vladimir Putin has outlined during his address at the Victory Day parade in Red Square in Moscow on Monday.

Putin not only praised the achievement of the Soviet people during World War II, but also addressed the Kremlin’s reasons for the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Russia had to act because a large-scale offensive against the breakaway republics in the eastern Donbass region was being planned, he claimed.

“We saw the military infrastructure unfolding [in Ukraine]; hundreds of foreign advisers starting their work; there were regular deliveries of the most modern weapons from NATO countries. The danger grew every day,” the president explained.



“Russia gave a preemptive rebuff to aggression – this was a forced, timely and the only right decision by a sovereign, strong and independent country,” he added, referring to the launch of the military operation.

“Despite all the disagreements in international relations, Russia has always advocated the creation of a system of equal and indivisible security,” Putin continued.

He cited Moscow’s attempts to engage in dialogue on security guarantees with Washington late last year, which failed to yield results.

“NATO countries didn’t want to hear us, which means that, in fact, they harbored completely different plans, and we saw it,” he elaborated. There were open preparations for a punitive operation in the Donbass and “an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea,” Putin insisted, adding that Kiev also announced plans to restore its nuclear capabilities.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US has increasingly spoken of ‘American exceptionalism,’ Putin pointed out. By spreading those ideas, Washington is “humiliating not only the whole world, but also its satellites, which have to pretend that they don’t notice anything and humbly accept it all. But we are a different country,” he insisted.

“Russia has a different character, we’ll never give up on our love for our Motherland, on our faith and traditional values and customs of our ancestors; on respect for all peoples and cultures.”

But the West has apparently decided to “cancel” those values, with such “moral degradation becoming the basis for cynical falsifications of the history of World War II, and the incitement of Russophobia,” he said.

“We know that American veterans, who wanted to come to the parade in Moscow, were basically banned from doing so,” Putin added. But he pointed out that Russia remembered the feats of the US servicemen and their contribution to victory in World War II.

Returning to the military operation in Ukraine, the president illustrated that “the self-defense forces of the Donbass Republics together with the Russian military are fighting on their land… for the Motherland, for its future, to make sure that no one forgets the lessons of World War II, so that there would be no place in the world for butchers, punishers, and Nazis.”

Announcing the “special military operation” on February 24, Putin said that Moscow should not repeat the mistakes of the Soviet leadership of 1940-1941. Back then, he explained, the USSR tried not to provoke Nazi Germany by “refraining or postponing the most urgent and obvious preparations it had to make to defend itself from an imminent attack.” As a result, the president continued, the moment was lost and the country was not prepared to counter the invasion.

“The attempt to appease the aggressor ahead of the Great Patriotic War proved to be a mistake which came at a high cost for our people…We will not make this mistake the second time. We have no right to do so,” Putin said.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. That’s right. It was the UK that became our sworn enemy about 500 years ago. It began back in the days of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible. At that time, the British realized that there was a force on the continent that could compete with the British in their colonies. Since then, the British lies, bribery and the use of proxy wars have not stopped against my country.

  2. Khamenei to Putin: Syad’te boy and listen. What you did on June 9, 2010 at the UNSC with Res 1929 was your first strike. The G7 never really became G8 don’t delude yourself. This denazification of yours that you’re doing we’ve been doing it since 1979. Get with the program. You’re smart.
    Oh and another thing, did you ever read “The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War” ? I suggest you read it and know that UK has always been your enemy number one.

    Putin: soglasen

    • I will have to read that: “ The Brothers : John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War”. It would appear, if history is any indication, that knowing your enemy does nothing to prevent wars. If there is any way to expose the reasons for enemies to exist and assuming all entities are ‘human’ negotiating solutions with the enemy is the only peaceful answer.
      These negotiated settlements do not appear to satisfy the truly savage and natural instincts of man. It appears we are destined to History repeating. From all indications coming out of western media Putin and Russia are “evil” and must be “dealt” with. Somehow the majority seem to believe in a Black and White world while existing in color.

    • You are very right about negotiating with your enemy and Russia or at least Putin is train in that. And as the why the negotiated settlements are overwritten by instinct and savagery, it’s because the settlement wasn’t negotiated correctly.

      Look at what’s going on with the renegotiation of the JCPOA. The new Iranian administration has dealt a much stronger plan of action than the previous one which was shredded by the orange buffoon to satisfy his handlers in Tel Aviv. If Biden wants a new deal which at this point it’s unclear, under the rules of the new settlement, the Israeli firsters of Washington aka the US Congress cannot just dump it later and walk.

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