LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) -

President Vladimir Putin will send a "doomsday" warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, brandishing Russia's vast firepower while its forces fight on in Ukraine.

Defiant in the face of deep Western isolation since he ordered the invasion of Russia's neighbour, Putin will speak on Red Square before a parade of troops, tanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

A fly-past over St Basil's Cathedral will include supersonic fighters, Tu-160 strategic bombers and, for the first time since 2010, the Il-80 "doomsday" command plane, which would carry Russia's top brass in the event of a nuclear war, the Defence Ministry said.


In that scenario, the Il-80 is designed to become the roaming command centre for the Russian president. It is packed with technology but specific details are Russian state secrets.

The 69-year-old Kremlin leader has repeatedly likened the war in Ukraine to the challenge the Soviet Union faced when Adolf Hitler's Nazis invaded in 1941.

"The attempt to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War turned out to be a mistake that cost our people dearly," Putin said on Feb. 24 when he announced what he called a special military operation in Ukraine.

"We will not make such a mistake a second time, we have no right."

Putin casts the war in Ukraine as a battle to protect Russian speakers there from persecution by Nazis and to guard against what he terms the U.S. threat to Russia posed by NATO enlargement. Ukraine and the West dismiss the fascism claim as nonsense and say Putin is waging an unprovoked war of aggression.

The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War Two, more than any other country, and Putin has railed in recent years at what Moscow sees as attempts in the West to revise the history of the war to belittle the Soviet victory.

Beside the 1812 defeat of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, the defeat of Nazi Germany is the Russians' most revered military triumph, though both catastrophic invasions from the west left Russia deeply sensitive about its borders.

”Putin never threatened Ukraine with nukes, the deterrent nah for the West, and he ain’t bluffing, even NATO knows that…” -OP

”No reasonable country go declare war on a nuclear armed country, not even a super-nuclear country like Russia” . -OP

”North Korea still dey give em headache, cos during wars there’s no rule, why not avoid the devil. “

”Putin can never use nuke on Ukraine, there are far better options wey go ruin Ukraine but dem never reach that part, nah friendly match dem still Dey play, if he declare full scale war on Kyiv , that comedian go seek asylum in Brussels dem no go tell am b4 he japa, cos nothing like targeting military infrastructures, na total destruction of Ukraine from the air and naval bases, but this saga won’t lead to that, make those rats in the steel plants starve to death first”- OP


https://www reuters com/world/europe/putin- send-doomsday-warning-west-russias-ww2-victory-parade-2022-05-06/

He's just behaving like a scared rat, NATO and US will soon take care of him

He should do his worst.
Stupi d man with no joy.
To hell with him, a message from Nigeria.

Sweetplum:
He should do his worst.
Stupi d man with no joy.
To hell with him, a message from Nigeria.

seconded, he's just paranoid and frustrated

Mr. Putin, bomb them to hell, sir.

Start with the 3 zombies above me.
Thank you, sir.

DoggoneDogg:
Mr. Putin, bomb them to hell, sir.

Start with the 3 zombies above me.
Thank you, sir.

hahahaha…. Don’t mind those jambites

If not for the entry of the US into the WW2, Soviet Union had no chance of victory over Nazi Germany led by Hitler.The era of world war 2 is different, he should stop behaving like a heroe.

VictorUSA:
If for the entry of the US into the WW2, Soviet Union had no chance of victory over Nazi Germany led by Hitler.The era of world war 2 is different, he should stop behaving like a heroe.

Eyaa

The West's open support to help Ukraine win their war against Russia means that they're very ready to join the war and all this time that they're using to observe the war is giving them more room to plan and prepare for any attack. Trust me, even though Putin's death is close, he doesn't want to end it with a doom's day with the West.

Ode, small Ukraine you cannot even fight and defeat, ordinary comedian, is slapping you left and right and all you have to show for 70 days of war is bombardment of empty apartment buildings and slaughtering of innocent civilians.

Oponu empty barrel..Ukraine

is your daddy..

Lord of war, backed with real time video evidence….

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