Putin Melts Down in Front of Stunned Sailors After Canceling Parade

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Vladimir Putin scrapped Russia’s Navy Day parade over fears of Ukrainian strikes and then raged to a group of sailors about a revenge fantasy and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

After canceling the parade—which was set to https://www.the-sun.com/news/16748438/putin-cancels-naval-parade-over-ukraine-drone-fears/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.the-sun.com/news/16748438/putin-cancels-naval-parade-over-ukraine-drone-fears/">feature around 200 warships sailing along the Neva River in St. Petersburg—the president opted for a televised meeting with Navy personnel.

In an apparent bid to save face, he angrily predicted that Ukraine would ultimately fall apart, claiming that Russia had actually been the only “guarantor” of Ukraine’s “territorial integrity.” Apart from the eastern regions of Ukraine that Moscow has tried to claim as its own, Putin declared the western regions “a gift from Stalin” and claimed they would “sooner or later” return to Hungary, Romania, and Poland.

The 73-year-old leader sounded somewhat defeated as he admitted that such a “return” would not happen immediately, suggesting it could take “a year, or two, or maybe even ten or fifteen” before everything would “historically fall into place.”

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