❗🇷🇺 We will decide the tasks of the special military operation step by step - Putin

❗🇷🇺 Russia did everything possible to solve the problem in Ukraine by peaceful means. But the statements of Western leaders turned into a forgery and a lie - Putin.

🇷🇺⚡ A year ago to protect our people on historical lands. To eliminate the neo-Nazi regime of the established regime in Ukraine, a decision was made on the SMO. Step by step we will carefully and consistently solve the tasks set before us - Putin

🇷🇺⚡️Putin : the promises and statements of Western rulers turned into forgery and cruel lies. The West supplied weapons, trained the nationalist battalions. Even before the start of the SMO, negotiations were underway on the supply of air defense systems and aircraft. We remember Kyiv's attempts to obtain nuclear weapons.

🇷🇺⚡Putin: The United States deployed bases and biological laboratories near our borders, mastered the theater of military operations, prepared Ukraine for a big war.

🇷🇺⚡Putin: while Donbass was on fire and blood was shed, and Russia was sincerely striving for a peaceful solution, the West was playing on people's lives, playing with "marked cards". They behaved the same way, destroying Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria. The concept of honor and decency is not for them.

🇷🇺⚡️Putin : we firmly defend not only our interests, but also the position that there should be no division into "civilized" countries and the rest. We were sincerely ready for a constructive dialogue.

❗🇷🇺 Only the US has a large number of military bases globally - Putin

🇷🇺⚡Putin: in response, we received an indistinct, hypocritical reaction. NATO expanded to our borders, new missile defense position areas were created.

🇷🇺⚡Putin: we received a refusal on all fundamental positions. It became clear that the go-ahead for the implementation of aggression had been given. The threat grew every day. By February 2022, everything was ready for the next punitive action of Kiev in the Donbass.

🇷🇺⚡Putin: Kyiv's actions completely contradicted UN resolutions. It was THEY who started the war. And we used force to stop it.

🇷🇺⚡️Putin : we are defending our home, and the goal of the West is unlimited power. they have already spent more than $150 billion on arming Kyiv.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : they spare no expense to encourage unrest and coups around the world. At a conference in Munich, Russia was blamed so that everyone would forget what the West had done in recent decades. Entire regions are in chaos. American experts say that as a result of the wars unleashed by the United States after 2001, more than 900 thousand people died, more than 38 million became refugees.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : Recently, one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was given the name "Edelweiss" as a Nazi division that participated in the deportation of Jews, executions of prisoners of war, and punitive operations. SS chevrons are very popular in Ukraine. Wehrmacht marks are applied to the equipment.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : The West doesn't give a damn who to bet on in the fight against us. The main thing is that they fight with our country, fulfill their will, serve as a weapon against Russia.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : we are not at war with the people of Ukraine, they themselves are a hostage of the Kiev regime and its Western masters, who occupied this country, destroyed its industry and robbed its wealth.

Notice how he continues to say WESTERN ELITES.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : the responsibility for the escalation of the conflict lies entirely with the Western elites and the Kiev regime, for which the Ukrainian people are a stranger.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : the more long-range Western systems will come to Ukraine, the further we will be forced to move the threat away from our borders.

🇷🇺⚡Putin : The goal of the West is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, to end us once and for all. We will respond accordingly, because we are talking about the existence of our country.

🇷🇺⚡Putin: more and more aggressive information attacks are being carried out against us. The main target is the younger generations.