Renew: 29/04/2022 14:15
Issued by: 29/04/2022, 14:15
Moscow – This year, Moscow will not invite foreign guests to the annual celebrations of the end of World War II. According to the TASS agency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this today. Foreign representatives were also absent at last year’s celebrations.
“We have not invited foreign representatives to Victory Day (May 9). The point is that it is not a Jubilee date,” said a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that the participation of the Belarusian president and close Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko was also not expected.
The ninth of May occupies a prominent place in the Russian calendar. On this day, Russia commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II and holds a large-scale military parade and exhibition of military equipment on Moscow’s Red Square. In recent years, only officials from countries of the former Soviet Union participated in the show as foreign guests.
According to the media, before this year’s Victory Day celebrations, Moscow wanted to demonstrate the significant success of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which had sparked a wave of criticism and at the same time an expression of solidarity with Ukraine in the world. However, according to some Western experts, the Russian army is facing serious problems in Ukraine. The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Putin will at least announce the creation of a new independent people’s republic in southern Ukraine, modeled on the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, created by separatists in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine, as part of the celebrations.
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