Putin hosts Xi Jinping and other world leaders as Russia marks Victory Day – Europe live

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03.36 EDT Putin speaks at Moscow parade Russian president Vladimir Putin has just delivered a fairly brief (for his standards) speech at the Victory Day parade in Moscow. From second right: Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedow, Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmon, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping watch the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. Photograph: Sergei Bobylev/AP He spoke of “joy and sadness, of pride and gratitude … to the generation that crushed the nazism at the cost of millions of lives.” He also talked that Russia will “never agree” to events of the second world war...