British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said on Monday May 9 that Vladimir Putin’s regime “reflects fascism and tyrannyof World War II and argued that Russian generals should be court-martialed for their actions in Ukraine.
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During a speech at the National Army Museum in London, he accused the Russian president of using the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 to cover up his mistakes in Ukraine, where the response to field failures n was only ashameful display of self-preservation, coupled with failure, anger, dishonesty and scapegoating“.
“Through their invasion of Ukraine, Putin, his inner circle and his generals reflect the fascism and tyranny of 77 years ago, repeating the mistakes of the totalitarian regimes of the last centurysaid Ben Wallace. “They show the same contempt for human life, national sovereignty and the rules-based international system“, he added.
“Illegal Invasion and War Crimes”
The Russian president is trying to place the conflict in Ukraine in the straight line of 1945, once again accusing his neighbor of neo-Nazism on Monday during the commemorations with great fanfare of the victory in the Second World War. On Monday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not let Russia “claim victory over Nazism“. For Ben Wallace, the Russian soldiersare not only engaged in illegal invasion and war crimes, but their ranks have failed their own soldiers to the point that they should be brought before a court-martial“.
He thus calls to denouncethe absurdity of the Russian generals – resplendent in their parade uniforms, weighed down by their many medals – totally complicit in Putin’s misappropriation of the proud history of their ancestors“. “Instead now they are the ones inflicting unnecessary suffering in the service of low-level gangsterism“, denounces the British minister, “and for them, and for Putin, there can be no victory day, only dishonor and surely defeat in Ukraine“.
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Denouncing the “tall tales“that Russia invokes to justify its fears about the prospect of NATO enlargement to the East, also insisted”categorically” on the fact that “NATO, Britain, Eastern Europe do not plan to invade Russia and never have“.
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