Victory Day celebrations took place in nearly 30 Russian cities as many remembered the seventy-seventh anniversary marking the end of World War two in 1945.
CGTN’s Liu Jiaxin gives us the details.
Joining the discussion:
- Peter Zalmayev is the Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative.
- Pieter Cleppe. He is the Editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport.eu.
- Anton Fedyashin is a Professor of History at American University and Author of “Liberals Under Autocracy.”
- Dmitry Babich. He is a Journalist and a Russian political analyst.
Unlike the West, the Russian people will never give up their love for the country, faith and traditional values, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square on Monday:https://t.co/TtCHC7Jtak pic.twitter.com/uU81wxWglk
— TASS (@tassagency_en) May 9, 2022
Russia holds a Victory Day military parade on Red Square in Moscow to mark the 77th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. #GLOBALink pic.twitter.com/AodI0GI3RW
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) May 9, 2022