Russia's Kremlin denies claims that they plan to declare war on Europe on May 9

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has denied that they are raging war on Ukraine. They have classed this as a ‘special military operation’. There have been countless rumours that the Kremlin will declare war on the rest of Europe on May 9.

Declaring war on Europe

Western officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may use the Victory Parade on May 9 to announce his declaration of war on Europe. The Victory Parade on May 9 is to commemorate the defeat of the Nazis and the end of World War II.

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace believes that the Russian President will use that day to boost support for a mass mobilisation of troops to advance their invasion of Ukraine. He told LBC Radio:

I would not be surprised, and I don't have any information about this, that he is probably going to declare on this May Day that 'we are now at war with the world's Nazis and we need to mass mobilise the Russian people',

There are also rumours that the Kremlin is planning a parade in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is almost completely under Russian control. Ukrainian politician Alyona Shkrum told the BBC:

For Putin and for the empire he's trying to build, basically this is a symbolic day, right?

So he takes some kind of victory day and he turns it into a big fight right now against Nazis, which is obviously Russian propaganda and completely ridiculous.

She added:

We are expecting that there will be quite tough times here in Kyiv and in Odesa and in Mariupol, and in other cities for 9 May

The Kremlin denies they are at war

Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022, the Kremlin has denied they declared war and instead call it a ‘special military operation’. The reason for their ‘special military operation’ was to ‘demilitarise’ or ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine after they claimed that there were Nazis in the country.

Naturally, the Kremlin has denied the claims that they plan on invading the rest of Europe. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that there was no truth in the rumours ‘at all’. However, these are the same steps that took place before Russian forces entered Ukraine.

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