President Vladimir Putin was targeted by hackers who disrupted the television coverage of the Victory Day parade, in another humiliation for the dictator.
While Russia celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, coverage of the event in at least four regions switched to footage of destruction in Ukraine.
He compared Putin to Hitler and suggested his patriotic “Z” symbol resembled a swastika.
Each Russian soldier was labeled a “murderer,” and viewers were also told how the president released repeat offenders and pedophiles to fight in the war.
Another caption, referring to a business run by Putin's ex-wife Lyudmila, reads: “Putin's ex-wife made $1 billion by lending money to Russians at 300% annual interest.”
There is also footage of the Crocus City concert hall massacre carried out by ISIS in March, which claims Putin's security forces failed to protect people and left 145 people dead in the bloody massacre.
The TV hack covered at least four regions: Omsk, Irkutsk, Orenburg, and Bashkortostan.
Channels broadcasting the parade, including a speech by Putin threatening the West with strategic nuclear weapons, were interrupted.
Viewers were encouraged to join the opposition to Putin's regime.
It is unclear whether the hack was carried out by rebels or Ukrainian intelligence.
Victory Day commemorations are the most sacred event on the Russian calendar, commemorating the tens of millions of people who died in World War II.
President Putin is using this event to shine a light on Russian patriotism and militarism in the midst of the war he has waged against Ukraine.
When he dispatched troops to Ukraine on February 24, 2022, President Putin invoked World War II to try to justify his actions, which Kiev and its Western allies denounced as an unwarranted war of aggression.
He cited the “denazification” of Ukraine as Moscow's main goal and falsely described the government of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a Jewish man who lost relatives in the Holocaust, as neo-Nazis.
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Many observers see Putin's focus on World War II as part of an effort to restore Soviet influence and prestige, relying on Soviet practices. .
“The continued identification of the Soviet Union with the victors of Nazism and the lack of other strong legitimacy forced the Kremlin to declare 'denazification' as the goal of the war.” Nikolai Eppley said in a commentary in Carnegie Russia Eurasia. center.
He said the Russian leadership “confines itself to a worldview limited by the Soviet past.”
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