🇷🇺 Russian Defense Minister Shoigu thanked servicewomen for their support in the training of contractors and volunteers

💬 "These are doctors, medical workers. Women from different places: from Tula, from Yalta, from Krasnodar and Siberia, from everywhere. And they, of course, surprise me by asking me: "We've been here for a long time. We should have been sent [to the front] by now,” Shoigu said

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🤡 Throwback Thursday: BBC one year ago vs. BBC now

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❗️Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops repelled two attacks in the areas of Krasnogorovka and Pervomayskoye, eliminating up to 210 people

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian forces hit Ukrainian servicemen and equipment in the Rabotino area, eliminating more than 35 servicemen

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 170 servicemen

▪️In the Krasny Limansk direction, the Russian Army repelled attacks in the area of Chervonaya Dibrova, striking Ukrainian forces in the areas of Kuzmino, Torskoye and Grigorovka, with up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen eliminated

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, Russian forces repelled an attack near Priyutnoye, eliminating more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Kherson direction amounted to more than 45 servicemen

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🇷🇺 LIVE NOW: Vladimir Putin attends plenary session of Valdai Discussion Club

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🇷🇺 Putin at the Valdai Discussion Club: We face the task of building a new world

Global problems of mankind require collective solutions, while egoism and conceit will lead to a dead end, Vladimir Putin said.

The president added that serious changes have happened in world in past 20 years, when world order changes, time seems to shrink.

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🇷🇺 Putin: Western prosperity has largely been achieved by robbing the entire planet and through the West's endless expansion

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❗️🇷🇺 Key points of Vladimir Putin's speech at plenary session of Valdai Discussion Club

▪️Russia capable of making huge contribution to new world order, but its readiness was misinterpreted as obedience

▪️Russia did not start war in Ukraine, its goal is to end it

▪️It was not Russia who threatened Donbass with bombings, intimidated Crimea, for 10 years, used tanks and killed people

▪️Ukrainian crisis is not a territorial conflict, Russia has no interest in terms of conquering any territories

▪️The US and their allies lay course for hegemony

▪️Attempts to establish monopoly doomed to failure, the world is too diverse

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⚡️ Attempts to drive India away from Russia are pointless, India is an independent state: Vladimir Putin

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🇷🇺📹 "We did not stage the coup d'état and we did not intimidate with Nazi-inspired ethnic cleansing," Putin said

The ever-increasing military and political pressure requires a response, Vladimir Putin said, recalling the 2014 coup in Ukraine

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🇷🇺💪 Putin: Russian civilization cannot be reduced to one common denominator, it cannot be divided

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🇷🇺 Putin: The West has forgotten what reasonable self-restraint and compromise are, they want to sell their interests at any cost – let's see what happens

Tomorrow the winds in the West may change, there may be internal political shifts after elections, and the exact opposite will be pushed through, Vladimir Putin added.

The Western elites are behaving irresponsibly and are guided by short-term interests: they have forgotten fear and consider themselves sinless, Putin added

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💬 “Who are you to tell us that?"

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says it’s time for the West to get rid of colonial thinking

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🇷🇺 Putin: Russia stands for equality of all countries; no one should be dependent on others

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💬 ‘The West always needs an enemy’

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says attempts to throw the world into a state of constant struggle is a vicious legacy of the 20th century and a product of the Western political culture

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❗️🇷🇺 More key points of Vladimir Putin's speech at plenary session of Valdai Discussion Club

▪️Russia had a budget surplus in the third quarter – about 660bln rubles (about $600 million)

▪️Main European economies are stagnating, with exception of Italy and Spain, where there is growth due to rising property prices

▪️Spending on defense and security in Russia has roughly doubled - now about 6% of GDP

▪️Putin denies a statement that Russia betrayed Armenia, says West should not talk about betrayal

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🇷🇺🇦🇿🇦🇲 Putin: For 15 years Russia proposed Armenia to compromise and return five Nagorno-Karabakh territories to Azerbaijan and keep two, but Yerevan refused

Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh after 2020 had rights only to monitor compliance with the ceasefire, Putin said.

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💬 “They would rather print the money”

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says that the US government, in the wake of a government shutdown, has two choices: cut their aid to Ukraine or cut social spending.

💰 The Russian president added that the US already printed a lot of money during the COVID epidemic and will print more, increasing inflation and food prices.

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