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On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine is "a timely and appropriate response" to Western policy. According to foreign media accounts, President Putin compared his country's actions in Ukraine to the Soviet fighting in World War II.

Like he congratulated former Soviet states on the 77th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II, Putin promised that "as in 1945, triumph will be ours."

"Today, our soldiers, like their forefathers, are fighting side by side to rescue their native land from Nazi filth, confident that victory will be ours, just as it was in 1945," Putin stated in February, after ordering his troops into Ukraine.

"Today, it is our collective obligation to avoid the return of Nazism, which brought so much sorrow to peoples in various nations," Putin said, adding that "new generations may be worthy of their dads and grandfathers' legacy."

Russian soldiers were pounding a beachside steel plant where an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters were making what appeared to be their last stand to keep Mariupol from succumbing in the 11th week of the war.

The mill is the only portion of town that hasn't been overrun by the invaders. Its failure would deprive Ukraine of a key port and allow Russia to open a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Ukraine will triumph in its conflict with Russia, according to Zelenskyy.

On the 70th anniversary of Ukraine's triumph over Nazi Germany in World Fight II, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared on Monday that his country would win its war with Russia and would not relinquish any territory.

"We are fighting for a new victory on the Day of Victory over Nazism. The journey will be challenging, but we are confident that we will succeed "In a written message, he stated.

Ukrainians, according to Zelenskyy, are a free people who have fought numerous times in history to defend their homeland and have their own "route." "Today, we are fighting on this route, and we will not give anyone a single piece of our territory... or a single piece of our history," he declared.

"We are proud of our forefathers, who battled Nazism alongside other nations in the anti-Hitler coalition. And we will not allow anyone to take or annex this victory."

He said, "Our unfettered spirit can't be restrained by anything. No occupier can establish a foothold in our free country. No invader has the power to rule over our free people. We will win sooner or later."