Moscow: The Russian President Vladimir Putin has just delivered a state of the nation address, assessing the special military operation in Ukraine as he ordered a year ago.
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| President Vladimir Putin giving the state of the nation speech in Moscow. |
Here are highlights from his address delivered on Tuesday to members of both houses of parliament, military commanders, soldiers and citizens:
■ Russia is suspending its participation in the New START treaty.
President Putin said he's forced to announce that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty.
The New START treaty was signed in Prague in 2010 by then President Barack Obama. It came into force the following year and was extended in 2021 for five more years after United States President Joe Biden took office.
The treaty caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them.
According to military experts and scientists, Russia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, with over 6,000 warheads. Together, Russia and the US hold about 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads – enough to completely destroy the earth.
■ A watershed moment for our country.
Mr Putin stated he was making the address at a difficult time, a watershed moment for Russia, a time of cardinal, irreversible changes around the world, the most important historic events that will shape the future of Russia and its people, when each of them bears a colossal responsibility.
■ Western nations trying to ‘distract people’s attention’.
President Putin said the West is trying to use the principles of democracy and freedom to defend their totalitarian values and to distract people’s attention from corruption scandalsand even from economic-social problems.
■ Responsibility is on West and Ukrainian elite.
In his address, Mr Putin emphasized that 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.
He continued to say that the more the West send weapons to Ukraine, the more Russia will have the responsibility of the security situation at the Russian border. This is a natural response.
■ We don’t fight the Ukrainian people.
President Putin confirmed that Russia don’t fight with the Ukrainian people. The Ukrainians became hostages of the corrupt Kyiv regime that occupied Ukraine both economically and politically. Over years, Kyiv has been doing everything to bring this degradation … The Kyiv regime is using its people, it’s sad but true.
■ Donbas subjected to ‘undisguised hatred’.
Mr Putin said that they will resolve the tasks facing Russia. Since 2014, the people of the Donbas region have 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 regime. They believed and expected that Russia would come to their rescue.
Meanwhile, Russia did their best to solve this problem by peaceful means. It patiently tried to negotiate a peaceful way out of this most difficult conflict, but a completely different scenario was being prepared behind their backs.
■ Reviving enterprises and jobs in occupied Ukrainian regions.
Moscow has 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 modern roads, as we did in Crimea.
■ Putin understands how unbearably hard it is for families of killed soldiers.
Mr Putin said he understood how difficult it was for families of the Russian soldiers who died fighting in Ukraine, and promised a “targeted support” with a new special fund.
■ Child abuse all the way up to paedophilia … advertised as the norm’ in the West.
President Putin said the West distort historical facts and constantly attack Russian culture, the Russian Orthodox Church, and other traditional religions of other countries.
For example, as it became known, the Anglican Church is planning to consider the idea of a gender-neutral God … Millions of people in the West understand they are being led to a real spiritual catastrophe.
Looking at what the West do to their own people: the destruction of families, of cultural and national identities and the perversion that is child abuse all the way up to paedophilia, are advertised as the norm … and priests are forced to bless same-sex marriages.
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