![]() “Although now it is another aggressor, the goal is the same - enslavement or destruction.”Įuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is due to travel to Kyiv on Tuesday to mark Europe Day together with Zelenskyy. “Unfortunately, evil has returned,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram. Zelenskyy equated Russia’s goals in Ukraine to those of the Nazis. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he had sent a draft bill to parliament proposing a Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II on May 8, and a Day of Europe on May 9, further distancing Kyiv from Moscow. May 9 is normally a bank holiday in Ukraine, too, but not this year, because of the war. The Kremlin at the time said it hadn’t invited any because it wasn’t a “round-number anniversary.”īut on Monday officials announced that Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon would be joining Putin and Zhaparov at the festivities, along with Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and Kazakhstan’s leader, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. That was one more foreign guest than last year, when no leaders went amid Putin’s broad diplomatic isolation over the war. Initially, only one foreign leader was expected to attend this year’s Moscow parade - Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov, who arrived Monday and met with Putin for talks. In the Russian capital, car-sharing services have been temporarily barred from the city center - drivers won’t be able to start or finish rides there – amid preparations for the traditional Red Square parade. Petersburg, often referred to as “Venice of the north” for its network of rivers and canals, using jet skis in certain parts of the city is prohibited through Wednesday.
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