Fact check: Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day speech
By DW
15 May 2022 |
1:56 pm
A nuclear threat from Ukraine? A Ukrainian invasion of Crimea? Ukrainian neo-Nazis? Russian President Vladimir Putin's May 9 speech contained new and familiar accusations amid the war in Ukraine. Most of them are false.
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