Russia Debunks Alleged Plans To Formally Declare War On Ukraine

  • There are speculations that Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, could use the 9 May Victory Parade to announce an escalation of military action

  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, said there was no truth to the rumours “at all”

Moscow has up until now denied it is at war, instead referring to the invasion as a “special military operation”.

But Western officials have speculated that President Vladimir Putin could use the 9 May Victory Parade to announce an escalation of military action.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, said there was no truth to the rumours “at all”.

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said last week that the Moscow parade – commemorating the defeat of the Nazis and end of World War Two – might be used to drum up support for a mass mobilisation of troops and renewed push into Ukraine.

“I would not be surprised, and I don’t have any information about this, that he is probably going to declare on this May Day that ‘we are now at war with the world’s Nazis and we need to mass mobilise the Russian people’,” he told a local radio station.

FURTHER READING

Russian officials only refer to the invasion as a “special military operation” to “demilitarise” or “de-Nazify” the country, referencing a baseless claim about Nazis in the Ukrainian government which Moscow used to justify the invasion.

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