Putin says Russia is defending the "Motherland" as the Ukraine conflict rages.

 




Ukraine, KYIV (AFP)— As Moscow flexed its military muscle at a parade commemorating the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany, President Vladimir Putin insisted that Russia's war in Ukraine was necessary to defend the "Motherland."

Despite reports that he would announce an escalation or a general mobilisation, Putin's speech in Red Square made no major announcements about Russia's next steps in the invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose forces are fighting Russian troops in the east, used the occasion to declare that Moscow would not be allowed to appropriate the Soviet Union's World War II victory.

Ukraine, YIV (AFP)— As Moscow flexed its military muscle at a parade commemorating the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany, President Vladimir Putin insisted that Russia's war in Ukraine was necessary to defend the "Motherland."

The Red Square celebration also included 11,000 troops and more than 130 military vehicles, though a planned military flyover was cancelled.

- 'We will triumph.' -

On the ground, the key battles are taking place in Ukraine's east, which Russia is attempting to secure after failing to take the capital, Kyiv, and the north.

Columns of trucks carrying soldiers and heavy equipment were seen moving down the main road leading away from the city of Severodonetsk, implying that Ukraine was abandoning its last stronghold in the eastern Lugansk region.

Russian forces were heavily shelling the roads, while Ukrainian forces responded by firing back to help cover the apparent withdrawal.

Officials said 60 civilians were killed in a Russian air strike on a school in the eastern village of Bilogorivka on Sunday, making it one of the deadliest single incidents since the February 24 invasion.

Sergiy Gaiday, governor of the Lugansk region, said on Monday that "very serious battles" were taking place around Bilogorivka and Rubizhne as Russia attempts to retake the Russian-speaking Donbas.

Donbas consists of Lugansk and the neighbouring Donetsk region.

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