Putin to send ‘doomsday’ warning to West

LONDON, May 6 Reuters - Russian President Vladimir Putin will send a “doomsday” warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, Reuters reported Friday.  

Ahead of May 9, speculation swirled across Moscow and western capitals that Putin was preparing some sort of special announcement on Ukraine, perhaps an outright declaration of war or even a national mobilisation but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed those suggestions describing them as “nonsense”.  

Last year, Putin jabbed at western exceptionalism and what he said was the rise of neo-Nazism and Russophobia in last years ceromony.