Putin: surprisingly a minute of silence for the Russian fallen in Ukraine. What the Russian leader said during his speech on May 9th

MOSCA – On the day that Russia commemorates Victory Day, the Soviet triumph over Nazism and the tribute of over 27 million Soviet soldiers to fight it, the president Vladimir Putin he interrupts his traditional speech to pay homage, with an unusual minute of silence, to the fallen in the current “special military operation”. “The militias in Donbass and the Russian army are fighting on their lands that the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (as Moscow calls World War II, ndr) they defended to the death “.