On the 77th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Sunday that “success will be ours,” drawing several parallels between the Second World War and the Ukraine conflict. “Today, like their forefathers, our warriors fight shoulder to shoulder for the liberation of their homeland from nazi filth, confident that, as in 1945, victory will be ours,” Putin stated on the eve of the date’s commemoration on May 8. “Today, the shared task is to avoid the rebirth of Nazism, which has caused so much sorrow to the peoples of various countries,” Putin stated, wishing “that the...