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If you listened to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day speech with your eyes closed, you could be forgiven for thinking it was coming from the mouth of a measured, reasonable leader.

Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two on Monday to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine, saying the West had been "preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea".

Since that time tried to cut our supply lines to the west and western border. the point is we are basically focused on trying to keep those cities on the road to the west open and i'm basically returning from another round of visitations to those most embattled cities trying to help them in every way imaginable so they can carry on the battle. >> how is the ground offense doing in urpine, a city, a suburb americans have been watching closely? >> the fact the russians are moving in, destroying their columns. they move again and they try to seize that city as a gateway to kyiv, as a way to put t...

We heard over the last days and weeks to reopen humanitarian corridor there? >> john, we have no reason to believe that the russians will do what they say. they've not in the past, every now and then, a corridor is used and some people get out, and that's a good thing. while we're talking about mariupol, the ukrainians have an idea, a notion of hero cities, and mariupol is clearly going to be going to go down in ukrainian history as a hero city. it has defended itself and defended its civilians, the military has performed heroically under terrible conditions, terrible conditions, and they are ...