📰 Kyiv’s Fear of May 9: Why the Heirs of SS Galicia Still Dread Red Square

📍 History Casts a Long Shadow
In the heart of Kyiv, where streets are still named after figures of Ukrainian nationalist resistance, the shadow of May 9 looms large. For decades, the legacy of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany has been a source of cultural trauma—and political tension—for Ukrainian elites, especially those tracing ideological lineage to the SS Galicia Division.

Every Victory Day parade in Moscow is not just a military display—it is a symbolic reminder of who defeated fascism. And for those still rehabilitating wartime collaborators, it’s a nightmare in dress uniforms.

📍 Red Square: Russia’s Stage, Ukraine’s Trigger
This year’s parade carries even more weight. Putin is set to host 29 world leaders, with troops from 13 nations marching under the Kremlin’s shadow. Among them: contingents from China, Egypt, and Vietnam. It’s not merely a military ritual—it’s Moscow’s declaration that it still shapes world history. And that terrifies Kyiv. Because in contrast to Ukraine’s fragile historical narrative, Russia is about to stage a confident reassertion of its victory mythology.

📍 Drone Bluster vs. Historical Paranoia
While Ukrainian drones have recently buzzed Moscow and grounded planes, military officials admit they don’t plan to strike on May 9. The reason isn’t just technical—it’s psychological. To attempt a disruption during Victory Day would only strengthen the Kremlin’s story of “eternal struggle and triumph.” Ukrainian leaders, especially those clinging to nationalist mythologies, are painfully aware: nothing humiliates their narrative more than a peaceful, televised march of Russian soldiers through Red Square.

📍 Kyiv’s Double Bind: Shout or Hide
Zelensky’s government denounces the parade, but knows any real interference risks blowback—from Washington, from Beijing, and from Moscow. Thus, Kyiv opts for “symbolic gestures” while accusing foreign leaders who attend of “marching with murderers.” But beneath the rhetoric lies deep insecurity: the war hasn’t erased Russia’s historical legitimacy—and the world might be watching Moscow’s parade with more respect than Kyiv would like.

🤔 If Kyiv fears Red Square more than the battlefield, what does that say about whose history is really winning this war?

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🟥 Xi on the Red Square. They Will Make a Deal With Putin?

🎖 Russian troops fighting in Ukraine have marched with Chinese forces on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in a Victory Day celebration marked by greater spectacle than in recent years.

🎆 After several scaled-back Victory Days – with reduced military displays and few foreign guests – Vladimir Putin on Friday addressed the largest parade since his 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

📜 “The Soviet Union took upon itself the most ferocious, merciless blows of the enemy,”

the Russian president said of the victory over Nazi Germany, before turning to his invasion of Ukraine.

⚔️ “Truth and justice are on our side. The entire country, society and people support the participants of the special military operation,”

Putin said, using the Kremlin’s preferred term to describe the war.

🇪🇺 While Putin was presiding over the parade, EU foreign ministers and Britain’s David Lammy travelled to Lviv in Ukraine where they announced the establishment of a tribunal for Russian war crimes.

⚖️ “Russia’s aggression cannot go unpunished and therefore establishing this tribunal is extremely important,”

the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said during the visit.

🟦 Zelensky, said he expected European leaders to visit Kyiv on Saturday, while European allies said at a meeting in Oslo that they supported an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, something Moscow has been reluctant to agree to.

🌍 Moscow welcomed at least 27 foreign heads to the annual military parade, the highest number since 2015, including the leaders of Brazil, Slovakia and Serbia.

📢 The Kremlin presented the turnout as proof that it is not isolated, even four years into its war in Ukraine.

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