wounds six stories from the border of hell

'Through sacrifice and heroic acts they saved the world from Nazism. Victory Day is a celebration to honour 'our father's grandfathers' who 'fought for the motherland', Mr Putin tells the crowd. He begins by congratulating commanders of Russia's 'special military operation' by building on the country's 'victory'. Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a speech in Moscow's Red Square to mark Victory Day. 'But it's very important to say that actually hundreds of thousands of Russians have left Russia already because they don't believe storyline that being pushed their way to justify this war.' 'But it's a line that he's peddling to those who want to believe it in the Russian state media, many of whom do believe it. 'They've even said that the West created Nazis,' he added, calling it a 'grotesque perversion of and distortion of history'.

'His story is that Russia is continuing the good work of the Second World War and he and his propagandists have been saying for some time now that effectively the Second World War was Russia against the rest, was against the West.

Speaking to Kay Burley, he said it was the same storyline Vladimir Putin has been 'peddling throughout this war' that 'Russia is being attacked by Russophobic Western elites' seeking to cancel the outcome of World War Two and destabilise world order. 'Well it was short, wasn't it? But it was classic Putin,' Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn says after the Russian president ends his speech.

Wounds six stories from the border of hell