{"id":1402444,"date":"2022-03-27T07:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402444"},"modified":"2022-03-27T07:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T11:14:54","slug":"russia-reportedly-wants-war-in-ukraine-over-on-symbolic-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-reportedly-wants-war-in-ukraine-over-on-symbolic-may-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Reportedly Wants War in Ukraine Over on Symbolic May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-reportedly-wants-war-in-ukraine-over-on-symbolic-may-9%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>REPORT: Russia Preparing to End War On Symbolic May 9:<\/strong>The <em>Kiev Independent<\/em> reports that the Kremlin wants the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/why-russias-war-in-ukraine-keeps-getting-more-barbaric-by-the-day\/\">war in Ukraine<\/a> to end by May 9, a symbolic day and an indication that Russia is not quite ready to give up on plans to conquer Kyiv and other major population centers despite a brutal loss of life, difficulty resupplying troops, and a shortage of food and water on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to intelligence from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian troops are being told that the war must end by May \u2013 widely celebrated in Russia as the day of victory over Nazi Germany,\u201d the independent English-language news <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyivIndependent\/status\/1507095376247074826\">platform revealed to its 1.9 million followers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why May 9 Is So Significant<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>May 9, known as \u201cVictory Day\u201d in Russia, is the day that the Soviet Red Army\u2019s counter-offensive in Nazi Germany came to an end, with Russian soldiers marching through Berlin in 1945 and declaring victory. Every year since the Russian people and other former Soviet countries have celebrated victory against the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the report is accurate, it offers a glimpse into Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/putin-has-a-problem-russias-defense-minister-might-be-missing\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s intentions for this war in Ukraine and the way he would like the \u201cspecial military operation\u201d to be remembered.\n<\/p>\n<p>During Putin\u2019s time as president he has encouraged greater celebrations on May 9, and when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/what-may-ninth-and-why-it-so-important-russia-605639\">addressed large crowds<\/a> in Red Square in 2017, he said that the Soviet Union \u201cfaced the most powerful assaults by the Nazis\u201d and that there is \u201cno force\u201d that can beat the Russian people.<\/p>\n<p>Ending the war on May 9 will give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/could-the-war-in-ukraine-mean-the-end-for-vladimir-putin\/\">Putin<\/a> an opportunity to propagandize his efforts in Ukraine, comparing the victory of the Soviet Red Army in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century to the Russian offensive in Ukraine in 2022, which the Russian president has repeatedly described as a process of \u201cDeNazification.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of this operation is to protect people who for eight years now have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime,\u201d\u00a0Putin said when he launched the invasion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this end, we will seek to demilitarize and deNazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s accusations, however, have been roundly dismissed, dissected, and proven wrong by a wealth of academics and experts \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/putins-big-war-lie-ukraine-doesnt-have-a-nazi-problem\/\">and even by this outlet.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Buckby is a British author, counter-extremism researcher, and journalist based in New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and reports on Western governments\u2019 approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers explore these themes and propose pragmatic solutions to our increasingly polarized society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORT: Russia Preparing to End War On Symbolic May 9:The Kiev Independent reports that the Kremlin wants the war in Ukraine to end by May 9, a symbolic day and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}