FOG BLOG PUTIN'S WAR LOG: PRESIDENT PUTIN BLAMES WEST FOR WAR ON 'MAY 9TH VICTORY DAY'!
Putin scolds West and blames NATO for Ukraine invasion during Victory Day speech 'Russia has pre-emptively repulsed an aggression,' Putin tells military parade Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech from the Red Square in Moscow to mark Victory Day (the annual national holiday celebrating the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany during the Second World War).
Putin blamed the West for the campaign in Russia, and made no dramatic declarations or announcements, despite predictions from many observers who thought Putin may capitalize on the patriotism of Victory Day to escalate tensions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked the day with his own speech, saying: "Very soon there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine."
The U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan have all pledged to ban or phase out imports of Russian oil. Russian troops are still trying to capture a steel mill where Ukrainian fighters are holed up and refuse to surrender. It's the last remaining stronghold in the strategic port city of Mariupol.
Intense combat continues in Eastern Ukraine. Russia refocused its invasion on the east after withdrawing from the north, where troops were slowed by Ukrainian resistance.
More than 60 are feared dead after a Russian bomb hit a school being used as a shelter in Bilohorivka.
Russian shelling has killed two boys, ages 11 and 14, in Pryvillia.
A 12-year-old boy in Dnipropetrovsk province was killed by a cluster munition that he found after a Russian attack.
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