Chinese President Xi Jinping sits next to Russian President Putin at Victory Day parade in Red Square.[Photo/screen shot from Xinhua]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that China was the main battlefield in Asian countries' resistance against militarism in WWII, sacrificing millions of lives.

Putin made the remarks in a speech delivered at the start of a grand military parade held in Red Square to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War, Russia's term for WWII.