Putin evokes Stalingrad battle as he vows victory in Ukraine war - Al Jazeera English

Putin compared Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine with World War II and besides lambasted Germany for helping to limb Kyiv.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has evoked a celebrated World War II triumph implicit the Nazis to rally his federation portion predicting a Russian triumph successful the war successful Ukraine.

Marking the 80th day of the World War II Soviet triumph implicit Nazi German forces successful the conflict of Stalingrad, Putin laid a wreath astatine the eternal occurrence of the memorial analyzable to the fallen Red Army soldiers successful Volgograd, the existent sanction of the city.

“Unfortunately we spot that the ideology of Nazism successful its modern signifier and manifestation again straight threatens the information of our country,” helium said successful a code connected Thursday. “Again and again we person to repel the aggression of the corporate West.”

Putin and different Russian officials often characterise Ukraine arsenic a hotbed of neo-Nazi beliefs, though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is of Jewish descent.

Putin besides lambasted Germany for helping to arm Kyiv and said helium was acceptable to gully connected Russia’s full arsenal, which includes atomic weapons.

“It’s incredible, but it’s a fact: they are threatening america again with German Leopard tanks with crosses painted connected their armour,” Putin said.

“And they are again going to combat Russia connected the territory of Ukraine with the hands of Hitler’s followers, the Banderites,” helium said, referring to WWII-era Ukrainian nationalist person Stepan Bandera, who was wide considered to beryllium a Nazi collaborator.

Germany, which for months mulled implicit its determination to nonstop tanks to Ukraine, aims to present them successful precocious March oregon aboriginal April arsenic portion of an confederation of countries consenting to proviso the units to Kyiv.

(Al Jazeera)

Battle of Stalingrad

The conflict of Stalingrad has heavy resonance successful Russia.

The five-month warring betwixt August 1942 and February 1943 is regarded arsenic the bloodiest conflict successful history, with the decease toll for soldiers and civilians reaching arsenic precocious arsenic 2 million. Most of the metropolis was reduced to rubble earlier Nazi forces surrendered connected February 2, 1943.

It was a large turning constituent of WWII and the conflict remains an immense root of pridefulness successful modern Russia, lauded arsenic a objection of subject mightiness and motivation seriousness.

The metropolis was renamed successful 1961 arsenic portion of the Soviet Union’s rejection of dictator Joseph Stalin’s property cult. Calls for the restoration of its aged sanction haven’t received the Kremlin’s blessing.

As Russian forces conflict to summation crushed successful Ukraine, lawmakers from the ascendant United Russia enactment person been told to liken the Ukraine combat to Stalingrad, the paper Kommersant reported.