Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️A strike destroyed the workshops for the assembly of Ukrainian Grom-2 and Tochka-U operational-tactical missiles in the Dnepropetrovsk region

▪️Up to 200 Ukrainian neo-Nazis, 23 military vehicles, and more than 30 tons of ammunition for artillery have been destroyed near Kramatorsk in the DPR

▪️Six Ukrainian warehouses of rocket and artillery armament and ammo have been destroyed in the DPR, Zaporozhye region and Dnepropetrovsk region

▪️A mobile group of the electronic intelligence center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Nikolayev region

▪️A Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down by Russian air forces near Kleshchevka settlement in the DPR

▪️A Ukrainian Su-25 was destroyed near Ternovie Podi, a settlement in Nikolayev region

▪️5 Ukrainian UAVs have been destroyed in the LPR, DPR and Kharkov regions

▪️18 HIMARS rockets have been destroyed in the air, as well as 2 HARM rockets in Kherson and Kherson region

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⚡️⚡️Vladimir Putin's address begins

'People have made their choice': Putin announces support for recognition of four new regions of Russia

⚡️Putin announced a minute of silence in memory of those killed in Donbass

Putin: DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have a common fate with Russia

Putin compared the tragedy in Odessa with Khatyn', mentioned the heroes who died in Donbass

Putin: We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and return to negotiations

Putin: We will protect our land with every means we have at our disposal

People of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions become Russian citizens forever, Putin says

West wants Russia to be a colony, they view us as slaves - Putin

The West removes rent as a hegemon, it is critically important for them that all countries surrender sovereignty in favor of the US, Putin says

The West is trying to do everything so that the neo-colonial system is preserved - Putin

The promise not to expand NATO to the east turned into a dirty deception, Putin says

Putin: Russia is a great civilization, which has lasted a millennium

It was the West that trampled on the principle of the inviolability of borders, and now it decides who has the right to self-determination and who is not worthy, Putin says

The West has no moral right to speak about democracy, Putin says

Putin: We now see Russophobia spreading across the world by the West as it seeks to push its neoliberal culture as a template

The western world order is not free, it's hypocritical and full of lies - Putin