⚡️ 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

❗️Those who have slapped sanctions against Russia are only punishing themselves by causing prices in their countries to rise. And they say that the Russians are to blame - Putin

❗️WATCH: Russian nuclear forces equipped to 91.3 percent, all military units need to reach this level - Putin

⚡️ Russia is an open country and a distinctive civilization, but there is no claim to exceptionalism and superiority in this - Putin

⚡️ Russia knows how to be friends and keep its word, it will not let anyone down and will always offer support in a difficult situation, as it helped Western countries during the pandemic, Putin noted

❗️ Inflation in Russia will approach the target level of 4% in the second quarter of 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said

❗️ Putin: Those who were born in Donbass and fought for it should become backbone for development of new regions

❗️ Russia is developing the International North–South Transport Corridor, which opens prospects for deeper cooperation with 🇮🇳India, 🇮🇷Iran and 🇵🇰Pakistan: President Putin in his address to the Federal Assembly

❗️ Putin: West is directly complicit in Kiev's attempts to conduct strikes on Russian strategic objects

❗️ Vladimir Putin: It is not Russia that is reducing settlements in dollars, the West is doing everything with its own hands, Putin said.

He noted that the share of the ruble in foreign trade settlements had already doubled.

⚡️⚡️ Russia suspends its participation in the New START treaty

▪️Washington is thinking about a natural test of nuclear weapons, there is such information, Vladimir Putin says

▪️ The Russian Defense Ministry and Rosatom must ensure readiness for testing Russian nuclear weapons if the United States does it first, Putin says

❗️ Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Address to Federal Assembly has finished

❗️ Key points from Putin's address to Russia's Federal Assembly:

▪️ Russia suspends its participation in the New START treaty

▪️ Donbass republics believed and expected Russia to come to their rescue

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

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

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

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

▪️ Russia is not at a war with Ukrainian people, who became hostage to the Kiev regime

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

▪️ West is directly complicit in Kiev's attempts to conduct strikes on Russian strategic objects

▪️ West has already spent $150 billion on military assistance to Ukraine

▪️ 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

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