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In a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, Vladimir Putin compared Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the fight against Nazi Germany.
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Russia launched its bloody, full-scale invasion nearly a year ago, prompting Western nations to send arms and aid to the government in Kyiv.
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Those who expect Russia to be defeated on the battlefield don't understand, the 70-year-old leader said, that a modern war with Russia would be very different for him.
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We are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond. This would not be limited to the use of armored hardware. everyone should understand
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Mr Putin was in Volgograd to mark the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the World War II conflict in which Soviet forces captured some 91,000 German soldiers and turned the tide of the war.
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During the war in Ukraine, Mr Putin has falsely tried to present the invasion of Russia as a fight against nationalists and Nazis - who he claims are leading the Kyiv government.
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Stalin – who led the Soviet Union between 1924 and his death in 1953 – was accused of planning the famine in Ukraine between 1932–33.
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Mr Putin also laid flowers at the grave of the Soviet marshal who oversaw the city's defence, and visited the main memorial complex, where he observed a moment's silence for those killed in the war.
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