He hugged the North Korean general. With special care was immersed by the Chinese leader. Talked about the victims of the soldiers. And for the first time on Red Square marched Russian drones.
President Vladimir V. Putin from Russia drew attention to the very factors that allowed him to wage the war against Ukraine until the fourth year when he chaired Slavků in Moscow on Friday.
The full invasion of Mr. Putin in Ukraine in 2022 originally proved to be catastrophic for Russian forces, but since then he has turned the situation on the battlefield. Among his helpers: North Korean soldiers and ammunition, shopping and technology of Chinese oil, Russian soldiers who have huge losses and seemingly endless swarms of Russian drones.
Everyone was somehow represented on Red Square because the Russian leader underlined the world, through the Soviet speech of parades and militarism, that he did not have to stand up in Ukraine.
“Truth and justice are on our side,” said Mr. Putin more than 11,500 military staff who said the Kremlin for the show, including more than 1,500 involved in the Moscow War against Ukraine.
“The whole country, society and people support participants in special military operations,” Putin added using Kremlin’s chosen euphemism for war.
Alexander Gabuev, director of the Center of Carnegie Russia Eurasia, said the events were calibrated to communicate a clear message: “If people believe that Russia is exhausted that the will, equipment and staff are not there, these people are bad.”
“This is the message he is trying to send,” said Mr. Gabuev. “Not necessarily that it is a reality.”
Mr. Gabuev noted that in addition to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, one of the most powerful people in the world, Mr. Putin also welcomed President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the largest country in Latin America. Their presence was part of a wider Kremlin attempt to show that, despite isolation from the West, Russia had maintained and in many cases improved links elsewhere.
On the way that will serve as a reaction to the assembly of Mr. Putin, the leaders of four nations joined with Ukraine – Britain, France, Germany and Poland – on Saturday – Saturday Their first common visit to Kiev, capital of Ukraine. The purpose of their arrival was to prove their support and emphasize their calls for Russia to agree with the 30 -day unconditional ceasefire.
The events came when President Trump, who promised to campaign on the campaign to mediate peace in Ukraine within 24 hours, said that interviews with Russian officials continue. Reiterated his support of the ceasefire that Kyiv supported, and There is a risk of saving More sanctions if Russia lasts.
“Thousands of young soldiers die every week and everyone should want it to stop,” Trump wrote about Truth Social before the events. “I do and the United States.”
Mr. Trump is scheduled for this next week on a trip to the Middle East, the first main foreign invasion of his second term of office, although he said he had not met Mr. Putin there.
Trump’s administration officials came up with enthusiasm when they concluded an agreement with Mr. Putin to end the war in Ukraine, but have since stated that Russia has been asking too much in negotiations and threatening to leave.
Mr. Putin could welcome this result, especially if he could continue to normalize relations with Washington and achieve relief from sanctions without having to accept a concession in Ukraine.
“The question for the future will be: if the US actually withdraws from negotiations to try to end the war, will it continue in US-Russia, resetting?” said Angela Stent, a Russian expert and professor Emerita at Georgetown University. “I think we don’t know it yet. What Putin wants, and he wanted it from the beginning, it is to separate them.”
In the comments broadcast on Sunday, Mr. Putin said that Moscow has “sufficient strength and means to start what started in 2022, a logical conclusion with the result requires Russia.”
The day before Friday’s Victory Day festival, Mr. Putin organized a separate summit for Mr. XI, the most important foreign partner of the Kremlin, and signed a number of joint documents that implicitly and explicitly damaged the United States.
It seemed to be calibrated to say that despite Mr. Trump’s requirements in peace negotiations with Moscow and in his trade war with Beijing, nations would stand together.
Mr. Xi condemned what he called hegemonic bullying, a clear reference to Mr. Trump’s shop. Mr. Putin, who alleviated his showcase against the United States and hoped to reset ties with Washington, once seemed to be less confrontational.
“The timing and tone is probably not what Russia wants to have,” Gabuev said. “But that’s the price you pay for being a partner of China.”
