Putin says Russia defending 'Motherland' as Ukraine war rages

President Vladimir Putin on Monday defended Russia’s war in Ukraine as necessary to protect the “Motherland” as Moscow flexed its military muscle at a huge parade marking the 1945 Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

KYIV, Ukraine –

But Putin sought to channel Russian pride for what he has described as a “special military operation” to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, which is led by an elected Jewish president. “Nobody could have imagined that 77 years later, fascist forces, Nazi forces would come back to life, killing civilians, butchering Russians into pieces,” Anastasia Rybina, a participant, told AFP.

The port city was hit Monday evening by a series of powerful missiles, destroying five buildings, setting ablaze a shopping centre and injuring two people, emergency services said.The governor of the eastern Lugansk region, Sergiy Gaiday, said Monday there were “very serious battles” around Bilogorivka and Rubizhne.

Full control of Mariupol would allow Moscow to create a land bridge between the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, and eastern regions of Ukraine run by pro-Russian separatists.Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky invoked the ghosts of World War II to chide Russia for claiming sole credit for winning.

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