VLADIMIR Putin has vowed Russia is “always” ready to strike and snubbed the UK in snarling World War 2 rant at Russia’s annual Victory Day parade. The Russian tyrant instead

With his armies grinding forward in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin on Thursday marked Victory Day, the World War II commemoration that is Russia’s most significant holiday, with an unusually harsh speech, accusing the West of “hypocrisy and lies” and of inciting global conflicts,

The May 9 parade commemorates the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II and has become the Kremlin's most important public holiday as Putin puts the country firmly on a combat footing. Putin has used nuclear rhetoric throughout the conflict ...