Towards the end of the war in Ukraine? Russian President Vladimir Putin, interviewed on the occasion of Victory Day which celebrates in Russia the end of the Second World War, assured this Saturday, May 9 that the conflict “is heading towards its end”. “I am firmly convinced that our cause is just,” Vladimir Putin said earlier in the day, regarding the Russian intervention in Ukraine.
Western countries, allies of kyiv, “began to intensify the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I think it’s coming to an end, but the situation remains serious,” he responded to a question about whether Western aid to Ukraine was going too far.
Vladimir Putin had affirmed earlier in the day that his army was confronting “aggressive” forces in Ukraine supported by NATO, during a brief speech on Red Square for modest commemorations of May 9, 1945, the first day of a truce accepted by kyiv – but which would be raped on both sides, according to the accusations of both sides.
“The great feat of the victorious generation (against Adolf Hitler) today inspires the soldiers who lead the special military operation (a Ukraine). They face an aggressive force armed and supported by the entire NATO bloc,” Vladimir Putin declared from the podium, defending a “just cause.”
Announcing the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on Friday evening, Donald Trump assured that the outcome of the war was “closer and closer”, while discussions resumed this week between Ukrainian and American negotiators in Florida. These talks had taken a back seat since the start of the war in the Middle East. On Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped American negotiators would come to Ukraine in the coming weeks.
The large-scale Russian offensive on Ukraine launched in 2022 and entering its fifth year has left hundreds of thousands dead. It is the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
