He ignored the Western allies of the then anti-Hitler coalition and the governments of Ukraine and Georgia.
“Today it is a collective duty to prevent the rebirth of Nazism, which brought so much suffering to the people of different countries,” read the message published on the Kremlin website on Sunday.
Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, citing an alleged “denazification” of the neighboring country. However, observers consider this to be an excuse to justify the hostilities. In a video message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy compared the Russian attack on his country with the Wehrmacht attack on the Soviet Union in 1941.
Putin’s letter went to the governments of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus, among others, as well as to several ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia. In addition to the eastern Ukrainian separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, which Moscow recognized as independent at the end of February amid violent international protests, Putin also congratulated the areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which had broken away from the South Caucasus Republic of Georgia. He also mentioned the Ukrainian and Georgian people, but not their governments. Russia waged war against Georgia in 2008.
Source: Nachrichten
