⚡️ Putin: Donbass Republics Believed and Expected Russia to Come to Their Rescue

▪️ Russia did everything to solve the Donbass issue peacefully, but the promises of Western leaders turned into forgery and a lie, the president said.

💬 "The concepts of honor, trust, decency are not for the [West]. They are used to spitting on the whole world. It turned out that they treat the peoples of their countries in the same way," the president noted.

❗️ The West was negotiating the supply of air defense to Ukraine even before the special operation started, Putin said

❗️ Putin: Russia showed readiness for dialog with West for years, but was ignored, rebuffed

Russia firmly defends not only its own interests, world should not be divided into 'civilized' countries and rest - Putin

❗️ No other country in the world has such number of military bases abroad as US, there are hundreds of them - Putin

⚡️ Putin: It is West who unleashed war, while we use force to contain it

▪️ The president stressed that Russia is defending its homeland and the lives of people, while the West's goal is power with no limits.

⚡️ Putin says it's impossible to defeat Russia on battlefield

⚡️ Neo-Nazis in Ukraine make no secret of whose heirs they consider themselves to be, putting swastikas on equipment and using Nazi names, Putin said

❗️ Putin: Purpose behind West's anti-Russia policy is to start war in Europe and eliminate competitors

⚡️ The West uses Ukraine as a battering ram and as a training ground - Putin

❗️ The longer is strike range of weapons supplied to Kiev by West, the further we need to push threat away from Russian territories, Russian President Vladimir Putin states

❗️ Putin promises to defend children from ‘degradation' witnessed in the West

⚡️ Russia became stronger after reunification with Donbass - Putin

⚡️ Putin thanks people living in Donbass republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions for making decision in referendum to join Russia despite threats from neo-Nazi regime

❗️ Putin announces the creation of a special fund for targeted assistance to the families of dead soldiers and veterans of the special operation

❗️ As a result of the wars that the United States has unleashed since 2001, almost 900,000 people have died and more than 38 million have become refugees - Putin

❗️ Putin: In 1930s, West practically paved the way to power for Nazis in Germany, and now they turned Ukraine into ‘anti-Russia'

❗️ Putin: Anti-Russia sanctions are just means, while West's goal is to make Russian people suffer

⚡️ Putin: West Has Already Spent $150 billion on Military Assistance to Ukraine

▪️ The West has already spent $150 billion on military assistance to Ukraine, and the flow of money is not stopping, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Federal Assembly.

❗️ Many of our promising military developments are significantly superior to foreign counterparts - Putin

❗️ The West has deployed not only a military and informational, but also an economic front against us, but has not achieved anything anywhere and will not achieve anything - Putin