Also the halfday in the afternoon of previous day.īegins on the 10th day of the Islamic month Dhu'l-Hijjah. Also the halfday in the afternoon of previous day.Īfter the end of the Islamic month Ramadan.
Dedicated to the youth.Ĭommemoration of the national unity against the coup d'état attempt for democracy in 2016.Ĭommemoration of the victory at the final battle in Dumlupınar ending the Turkish Independence War in 1922, dedicated to the armed forces.Ĭommemoration of the proclamation of the republic in 1923.
Dedicated to the children.Ĭommemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports DayĬommemoration of the beginning of national liberation movement initiated in 1919 by Atatürk's landing in Samsun. Whether anything changes this Victory Day or not, a new chapter in the war will inevitably need writing soon.ĬNN’s Anna Chernova contributed to this report.Religious Holidays Available holidays DateĬommemoration of the first opening of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey at Ankara in 1920. The possibility that Russia may win nothing, or very little, in Ukraine is real. A bombing of a school in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, that is feared to have killed at least 60 sheltering people over the weekend is just one example.Īfter Russia’s failure to take territory in Ukraine’s north and around the capital, Kyiv, it’s struggling even in the east and south, where it has had a presence through pro-Russian rebels for years. That’s worrying, as those attacks are indiscriminate and tend to cause huge civilian tolls. There are growing concerns that Russian forces will turn again to standoff weapons – aerial strikes and long-range missiles, for example – that can be fired from afar, as they so often do when they are on the backfoot. Russian service members take part in a military parade on Victory Day in Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2022. The question now is whether Putin will use this day – or this week even – to escalate the war in other ways. All he can do now is to keep Russians on his side as they suffer the economic hardship of crippling sanctions and international isolationism. He has so few successes in Ukraine to brag of, after all. Putin had few other options than to use his speech to keep selling his war to his own people.
The decision of an independent, sovereign and powerful nation,” he said. This was the only correct decision, and it was a timely decision. Russia repelled this aggression in a preventative way. In reference to the threat of NATO troops in Europe, Putin said: “Everything indicated that a clash with neo-Nazis, Banderites, on whom the United States and their younger partners counted on, would be inevitable.” Sixty people are feared dead following the airstrike, according to Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration. Images show the aftermath of a bombing in Bilohorivka, a village in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. In his reverence for Soviet war heroes who helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II – the reason Russia celebrates Victory Day – Putin referred to new Nazi threats in Ukraine, repeating his baseless justification for the invasion as an operation to “denazify” the nation. Instead, the Russian president used his speech to blend history with the present, banking on Russian nationalism on its most patriotic of holidays to justify his war. Even if that had been Putin’s plan, he was unlikely to follow through after Wallace’s comments, not wanting to appear to his Western foes as such an easy nut to crack. UK defense chief Ben Wallace had suggested that Putin may use this historic day to escalate his so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine and declare an outright war. They’ll have to keep guessing – the leader offered few clues on the direction of the conflict. Global leaders and defense officials had spent weeks speculating what Russian President Vladimir Putin might reveal about his Ukraine plans in a speech at Russia’s Victory Day commemorations Monday.
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