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Feb 24, 2022 · Feb. 24, 2022. When Vladimir V. Putin announced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a televised address on Thursday, he articulated aims far beyond those of Russia’s prior assaults on its ...
Feb 23, 2022 · What Putin’s worldview means for Ukraine. Putin’s narrative is twisted history. For one thing, it is simply incorrect to say that Ukraine has no independent national identity separate from ...
Feb 21, 2023 · 21 February 2023. By Reality Check team,BBC News. EPA. Vladimir Putin was delivering a state-of-the-nation speech to Russians. President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian public in a national ...
- ‘Russia Is Suspending Its Participation’ in The New Start Treaty
- ‘A Watershed Moment For Our Country’
- Western Nations Trying to ‘Distract People’s Attention’
- ‘Responsibility Is on West and Ukrainian Elite’
- ‘We Don’T Fight The Ukrainian People’
- Donbas Subjected to ‘Undisguised Hatred’
- ‘Reviving Enterprises and Jobs’ in Occupied Ukrainian Lands
- ‘I Understand How Unbearably Hard It Is’ For Families of Killed Soldiers
- ‘Child Abuse All The Way Up to Paedophilia … Advertised as The Norm’ in The West
“I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty.” The New START treaty was signed in Prague in 2010. It came into force the following year and was extended in 2021 for five more years after United States President Joe Biden took office. It caps the number of strategic nuclear warhead...
“I am making this address at a time which we all know is a difficult, watershed moment for our country, a time of cardinal, irreversible changes around the world, the most important historic events that will shape the future of our country and our people, when each of us bears a colossal responsibility.”
“They just tried to use these principles of democracy and freedom to defend their totalitarian values and they tried to distract people’s attention from corruption scandals … from economic-social problems.”
“The responsibility is on the West and the Ukrainian elite and government, which does not serve the national interest, but [rather serves the interest] of third countries [which] use Ukraine as a military base to fight Russia. “The more they send weapons to Ukraine, the more we will have the responsibility of the security situation at the Russian b...
“We don’t fight with the Ukrainian people. They became hostages of the Kyiv regime that occupied Ukraine both economically and politically. Over years, they were doing everything to bring this degradation … They are using their people, it’s sad but true.”
“Step by step, carefully and consistently, we will resolve the tasks facing us. Since 2014, the (people of the) Donbas had been fighting, defending their right to live on their own land, to speak their native language. “They fought and did not give up in the conditions of blockade and constant shelling, undisguised hatred on the part of the Kyiv re...
“We have already begun and will continue to build up a large-scale programme for the socioeconomic recovery and development of these new subjects of the federation (territory annexed from Ukraine). We are talking about reviving enterprises and jobs in the ports of the Sea of Azov, which has again become an inland sea of Russia, and building new mod...
Putin said he understood how difficult it was for relatives of Russian soldiers who had died fighting in Ukraine, and promised “targeted support” with a new special fund. “We all understand, I understand how unbearably hard it is now for the wives, sons, daughters of fallen soldiers, their parents, who raised worthy defenders of the Fatherland.”
“They distort historical facts and constantly attack our culture, the Russian Orthodox Church, and other traditional religions of our country,” Putin said of Western nations supporting Ukraine. “As it became known, the Anglican Church plans to consider the idea of a gender-neutral God … Millions of people in the West understand they are being led t...
Feb 22, 2023 · by Colin Meyn - 02/21/23 7:45 PM ET. Russian President Vladimir Putin began his address before Russia’s parliament on Tuesday by underlining the stakes of his war in Ukraine. “This is a time ...
Feb 25, 2022 · With Putin’s plan taking shape, Ukraine’s leaders moved to introduce a state of emergency and began conscripting reservists. After hours of frenzied rumors and reports of Russian troop ...
