'Soon there'll be TWO Victory Days in Ukraine…someone will not have

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'Soon there will be TWO Victory Days in Ukraine…and someone will not have even one left’: Zelensky takes swipe at Putin in new video denouncing Russia’s May 9 propaganda

• Ukrainian president releases defiant new video walking through streets of Kyiv
• Goaded Putin minutes before Russia's touted 'Victory Day' parade in Red Square
• 'We are free people who have our own path', he said. 'That scares them'
• Zelensky finished: 'We won then. We will win now too. Glory to Ukraine!'
• President also quoted Ukrainian philosopher: 'There is nothing more dangerous than an insidious enemy - but nothing more poisonous than a feigned friend'

By ADAM SOLOMONS FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 18:11 AEST, 9 May 2022 | UPDATED: 18:23 AEST, 9 May 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia will have no Victory Days left after it loses the war in Ukraine.

In a clip released minutes before Putin's propaganda parade in Red Square this morning, Zelensky stated: 'Very soon there will be TWO Victory Days in Ukraine.

'And someone will have not even one left.'

Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia will have no Victory Days left after it loses the war in Ukraine.

In a clip released minutes before Putin's propaganda parade in Red Square this morning, Zelensky stated: 'Very soon there will be TWO Victory Days in Ukraine.

'And someone will have not even one left.'

He also said Russia 'treaded on a rake' by invading Ukraine.

'Every occupier who comes to our land treads on it', he said.

Zelensky added: 'Our enemy dreamed that we would refuse to celebrate May 9 and the victory over Nazism. [But today], we are fighting for a new victory.'

Zelensky said 'madman' Putin is 'doomed'.

'Because he was cursed by millions of ancestors when he began to imitate [Hitler]', he stated. 'And therefore he will lose everything.'

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Zelensky said 'madman' Putin would have no Victory Days left after his humiliation in Ukraine

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He closed by referencing Hitler's defeat: 'We won then. We will win now, too! Glory to Ukraine!'

Zelensky wore his trademark green shirt as he walked down Khreshchatyk, Kyiv's main street, still littered with metal barricades.

He said Russia resents Ukraine's freedom. 'We are free people who have our own path. That scares them', he said.

'There are no shackles that can bind our free spirit.'

He finished the five-minute address by saying: 'We won then. And we will win now too. Glory to Ukraine!'

The president started by looking back to celebrations last summer of 30 years of Ukrainian independence.

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Zelensky's clip was interlaced with footage of the Kyiv military parade on August 24 last year

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Zelensky cited alleged Russian war crimes as he described the invaders as 'barbarians'

The country celebrated its third decade of freedom from the Soviet Union with a military parade on Khreshchatyk on August 24.

Zelensky said Russia had behaved like a 'feigned friend' - which is worse than an 'insidious enemy'.

He quoted Ukrainian national philosopher Gregory Skovoroda: 'There is nothing more dangerous than an insidious enemy - but nothing more poisonous than a feigned friend.'

Zelensky continued: 'On February 24th, we realised this when a feigned friend started a war against Ukraine.'

'The road to [victory] is difficult. But we have no doubt that we will win.

'What is our advantage over the enemy? We are smarter [on] one book. A textbook on the history of Ukraine.

'We would not know grief if all our enemies could read it.'

Zelensky's dramatic video was released just an hour before Putin addressed Moscow's Red Square to mark Victory Day over the Nazis.

Russia had hoped to use the May 9 celebration to tout its achievements in Ukraine.

But a spate of military failings and a fierce Ukrainian resistance made that impossible.

Instead Putin said he invaded Ukraine to 'protect' Russian minorities inside the country. He also accused the West of plotting to invade Russia.

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Images last night show a wrecked school in Ukraine's war-torn Luhansk region. Sixty civilians were reportedly killed in the Russian attack, Zelensky confirmed in a speech to the G7

But the Kremlin leader stopped short of what many feared: an official declaration of war on Kyiv.

This would have allowed him to mobilise Russia's military reserves and enlist more civilians to escalate fighting across the border.

A planned flyover by his 'Doomsday' nuclear escape jet was also axed at the last minute, reportedly amid fears it could be attacked.

The parade itself was also downsized from previous years, featuring almost a third fewer vehicles than in 2020.

That's because Russia has committed - and lost - much of its ground forces in Ukraine.

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