⚡️ 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

❗️ Equipping the nuclear deterrence forces with the latest weapons is at a level of 91.3 percent, and it is necessary to reach this level in all areas of the Armed Forces, the President said

❗️President Putin speaks on the West's anti-Russia project

⚡️ West tried to destabilize Russian society from within but failed - Putin

❗️ Russia is actually entering a new cycle of economic development, there are all opportunities for a breakthrough in many areas, Putin said

⚡️ In 2022-2023 Russia exporting 55-60mln tonnes of grain, level that was thought to be unreachable, Vladimir Putin says

❗️ Putin: The West does not care who it ruins when it goes to war against us. Everyone is dispensable as the West goes after what it wants.

❗️ Vladimir Putin: Russia was rebuffed every time it asked for security guarantees, and it became clear that the threat [from the West] was growing every day

❗️ WATCH: Russia is not at a war with Ukrainian people, who became hostage to the Kiev regime — Putin

⚡️ West not abandoning attempts to ‘incite' post-Soviet states - Putin