Putin to officially declare war on Ukraine on May 9

Russian President Vladimir Putin may formally declare war on Ukraine on May 9. US and Western officials believe it is a move that will enable Moscow’s reserve forces to fully mobilize as invasion efforts falter. According to a CNN report, May 9 is known as ‘Victory Day’ in Russia. The day commemorates the country’s defeat by the Nazis in 1945.

Western officials have long assumed that Putin would take advantage of the symbolic significance and propaganda value of that day to announce a military achievement in Ukraine, a major escalation of hostilities, or both. Western officials have long assumed that Putin would take advantage of the symbolic significance and propaganda value of that day to announce a military achievement in Ukraine or a major escalation in hostilities, or both. Officials are beginning to pay attention to the scenario that Putin could formally declare war on Ukraine on May 9.

To this day Putin has insisted on referring to the months-long conflict as a ‘special military operation’. Words like aggression and war are effectively banned from the Russian side. Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told LBC radio last week that I think he will try to withdraw from his ‘special operation’. Putin is now turning the pitch of war. Preparing the ground to say something new. During the conflict Putin would now say ‘Look, this is now a war against the Nazis and I need more people. I need more Russian cannon.”

Putin has consistently characterized his invasion of Ukraine as a conflict with a Jewish president, which has been dismissed by historians and political observers alike as a campaign of ‘denial’. Wallace said I wouldn’t be surprised. I have no idea about this. He is probably going to announce on this May Day that we are now at war with the Nazis of the world and we need to mobilize the Russian people in a big way.