Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday sought to cast Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine as a necessary move against "aggression" despite no evidence that Russia was under imminent threat from either Ukraine or NATO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, said his country would not allow Russia to appropriate Europe's victory over Nazism in World War II for his own purposes.
Speaking at a military parade on Red Square marking the World War II victory over the Nazis, Putin drew spurious parallels between the Red Army fighting against Nazi troops and Russian actions in Ukraine.
