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Victory Day is a holiday observed in the United States state of Rhode Island with state offices closed on the second Monday of August.

And nor was there a sign when the invasion might actually end," Seddon wrote on Twitter. "The biggest absentee from Putin's speech, though, was any actual 'victory.' He said Russian troops were fighting heroically in the Donbas, but didn't mention Mariupol or any other territories Russia has captured. Max Seddon, the Moscow bureau chief at the Financial Times, observed there were other clues in the Russian president's speech that he was possibly digging in for a long war. He doesn't know what to do now," Boot tweeted. That's why he didn't announce any new initiatives on Victory Day. "Putin is trapped in a quagmire with no good options. Russian-American author and columnist Max Boot also said Putin doesn't have much of a road forward in Ukraine and therefore couldn't declare any new strategic moves on Monday.

"Putin can't spike the ball right now he's looking for a way out?" "Putin knows he's losing: militarily, diplomatically, economically, will get worse?" Mark Hertling, a military analyst and retired U.S.

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"Putin now seems to want to transform his genocidal war into a frozen conflict in Ukraine," Paul Massaro, a senior policy adviser of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, tweeted in response to the Victory Day address. "But also I think it's profoundly stupid as a strategy because it implies that the U.S. In describing the war as a fight against Western powers, Putin "makes Russian defeat much easier to excuse, of course, and accept, and it really mobilizes Russian nationalism behind the campaign," Lieven added. He also said the president attempted to paint the war as a battle against NATO and the United States. Though no such major announcements were made, Putin did continue to justify his invasion.Īnatol Lieven, a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told Democracy Now! that he felt Putin's remarks indicated that Russia is preparing "for a long, long campaign" against Ukraine.

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This year he referenced the Ukraine war multiple times in his comments, calling the "special military operation" an attempt to "denazify" the neighboring country.īefore his address, many people expected the Russian leader to use the occasion to possibly announce a full mobilization of his forces in Ukraine or to make a formal war declaration. The annual event commemorates Russia's defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. Putin spoke during Russia's Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday addressed his country during a speech that connected Russia's war in Ukraine to World War II while also signaling the current conflict's long road ahead.