"We will achieve our goals"
.
Vladimir Putin thus begins his speech to the Federal Assembly in Moscow.
"I speak at a very complex and decisive moment of radical changes that will define the future of our country and people.
On each of us there is a very great responsibility to defend our country and liquidate the threat of the neo-Nazi regime
", adds the president Russian.
"Russia's nuclear deterrence force is 90% equipped with advanced weapons
- a level that should be extended to the entire military."
points out
"It is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield"
.
"The more they use long-range systems, the more we will have to keep the threat away from our borders, it is clear and natural.
The West's goal is to lead Russia to a strategic defeat, they want to eliminate us forever. They do not realize that it is in the very existence of Russia is at stake"
, continues the Russian leader.
According to Putim, Russia wanted a peaceful solution in Ukraine to avoid military intervention, but
the West was playing "with false cards" to deceive Moscow
.
"Russia is producing new technologies that "improve the combat readiness of the army and navy."
This was stated by President Vladimir Putin in his State of the Nation address.
"These technologies exist, and the pace of their production and application is improving,"
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Ukraine "wanted to acquire nuclear weapons
- says Putin - We had no doubts that in February they had punitive operations ready in the Donbass, where they had already carried out bombings and this was in contradiction with the UN resolution.
They started the war, we use force to stop war.
"Kiev not only wanted to attack Donbass, but also Crimea."
"The West has prepared Ukraine for a big war and today recognizes it. The West has already spent 150 billion dollars on military aid to Ukraine, the flow of money does not decrease."
"Ukrainian people held hostage by Nazi regime in Kiev"
.
In the 1930s the West pioneered Nazism in Germany and "now does the same in the Ukraine".
Russian President Vladimir Putin said this in front of Parliament.
Putin accused the West of also supporting Nazi militias in Ukraine, because
Westerners "don't care about anything, and are ready to use anyone"
against Russia.
"Forgive them Lord, for they do not know what they are doing...". Russian President Vladimir Putin said this when speaking of the diffusion of new gender theories in the West
.
"There are also priests who approve of same-sex marriages," he added.
"Today I want to say to these 4 regions under our direct support that we are now with you,
we will do everything to ensure that peace, social and economic recovery returns to these territories of ours to restart businesses and jobs
and we will build modern roads as in Crimea".
"The Russian economy has overcome all risks", he said,
underlining among other things that in 2022 the decline in GDP was 2.1% compared to the much worse forecasts of March 2022, after the start of the operation military in Ukraine.
"We have everything to ensure the country's security and development,"
she added.
"The strategic objective is to take our economy to new borders, it is a time of challenges and possibilities,
The absolute majority of Russians have expressed their support for the special military operation"
. The Sea of Azov has "returned to being an internal sea of Russia".
"Those who are on the path to treason must be held legally accountable, but there will be no witch hunt."
“The West has not only unleashed a military and cyber war and has failed to achieve anything and will achieve nothing.
Then it imposed sanctions on us which have caused prices to rise and job losses, they are victims of their decisions themselves and the citizens know it
".
"We are not at war with the people of Ukraine"
: Putin said.
The Kremlin chief accused
Kiev and its Western patrons of having "occupied the country politically, militarily and economically"
, after claiming that the Kiev regime is "holding its people hostage".