Putin congratulates peoples upon Victory Day, ‘fraternal friendship to be preserved’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated several foreign leaders upon the 77th anniversary of victory over Hitler’s Nazi Germany, according to The Kremlin’s website.

His addressed his message to “the leaders and the people” of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the self-proclaimed ‘DPR’, ‘LPR’, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, as well as to “the people of Ukraine and Georgia.”

“Our mutual duty today is to prevent the rebirth of nazism which brought so much suffering to the people in different countries.

he said, wishing for the generations yet unborn to be “worthy of their ancestors.”

He also congratulated the leaders of ‘DPR’ and ‘LNR’: “Just like in 1945, we will prevail.”

Putin congratulated the Ukrainian people specifically: “I sincerely wish longanimity, longevity and good health to the Ukrainian veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and a peaceful and just future to all residents of Ukraine,” he said.