Putin is a “Nazi”. The Ukrainian leader’s reaction after Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack before Victory Day

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that it shot down 39 of the 55 missiles fired at several regions and 20 of the 21 Shahed drones launched by the Russians.

“On the day of commemoration and victory over Nazism in the Second World War, Nazi Putin launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine. The whole world must understand who is who. The world must not give a chance to the new Nazism”, declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday morning.

For decades, the annual May 9 parade in Moscow has been less a memorial to the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II than a carefully choreographed show of power. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, the Kremlin has stepped up attacks on Ukraine ahead of Victory Day — seeking to give Putin something to brag about in his annual Red Square speech, Politico reports.

This year, Russian forces were ordered to capture the strategic Ukrainian town of Khasiv Yar in the Donetsk region before May 9. Although they have not yet succeeded in accomplishing this task, the Russians have taken advantage of Ukraine’s lack of weapons and depleted troops to quickly gain territory, taking control of several small villages in the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Wednesday’s attacks mainly targeted civilian energy infrastructure, targeting electricity production and transmission facilities in Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia regions.

“The enemy wants to deprive us of the ability to generate and transmit enough electricity,” Galushchenko said, urging Ukrainians to limit power consumption, especially during the morning and evening peak periods. “This is the contribution of each of us to the victory. The light will win,” added the minister.