Putin Targets ‘Victory’ in Ukraine as Trump Pushes for Truce
Russian missile S-400 Triumf systems on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, on May 9.
Photographer: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia would achieve its strategic objectives in Ukraine as he insisted the country was united behind his war.
“That strength of spirit has always brought us only victory,” Putin said Friday at the May 9 military parade on Moscow’s Red Square marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Russia “will always rely on our unity in military and peaceful affairs, in achieving strategic goals.”