this year, the message to the federal garden assembly was not made public, and there was a lot of speculation about it. why did this happen? what prevented, and even some kind of conspiracy theory was of a kind, especially at the end of the year, when it became clear that the message would not take place. well, in general, all the rumors dispelled, as always, the head of state, journalists asked a direct question at a press conference, and in the kremlin at the end of december. will there be a message and why it did not take place, and then the head of state clarified that the dynamics of changes, taking place today, they are too high and at such a rate of changes it is very difficult to conduct any kind of analysis , from which it can be concluded that the president, but sees the message precisely as an opportunity to sum up at least intermediate results, and we can conclude that the president, and sees the message precisely as an opportunity to sum up at least intermediate results and precisely from this point of results. and designate the vector of movement forward. so today there is every reason to believe that it is

on this that the head of state will concentrate you asked about the mood with which people come here today, with what mood all the guests present here today, but i must say that this is the mood. probably in many respects different from the previous messages of the president to the federal assembly. it is clear that there is both joy from the meeting and the working spirit that deputies traditionally have, which is also generally important this is understandable because today the head of state will voice very specific tasks, give very specific instructions, on which these tasks will often need to be worked serious. so there is a spirit of mobilization here today. this is the most important thing, the side is ready for changes, and right now we will hear the president's address to the federal assembly any minute.

it will begin and right now we can watch it on our air. evgeny president of the russian federation vladimir vladimirovich putin good afternoon, dear deputies of the federal assembly , senators, deputies of the state duma dear citizens of russia, today's message i am speaking at a difficult time, we all know this very well this is a milestone time for our country. during the period of cardinal

irreversible changes around the world of the most important historical events that determine the future of our country and our people, when each of us has a colossal responsibility a year ago to protect the people of our historical lands for a special military operation. step by step, we will carefully and consistently solve the tasks facing us. since 2014, donbass has been fighting for the right to live on its own land to speak his native language, he fought and did not give up

everything in the conditions of blockade and constant shelling , undisguised hatred from the kiev regime, he believed and waited that russia would come to the rescue. meanwhile, it’s good for you too, you know, we did everything possible, really everything possible to solve this problem by peaceful means, patiently entered into negotiations on a peaceful way out of this difficult conflict, but a completely different scenario was being prepared behind our backs, the promise of the western rulers of their assurances of aspirations for peace in the donbass turned out as we are now we see under the log of a cruel lie. they simply played for time, engaged in chicanery , closed their eyes to political assassinations, to

the repressions of the kiev regime against objectionable ukrainian neo-nazis, to bullying believers, to terrorist actions in the donbass, trained officers of nationalist battalions. and i want to emphasize that even before the start of a special military operation. negotiations were conducted from kiev with the west on the supply of air defense systems and combat aircraft and other heavy equipment to ukraine. we also remember attempts kyiv regime to get nuclear weapons. after all, the united states spoke about this publicly and nato quickly deployed its army bases near the borders of our country, secret biolaboratories in the course of manners mastered the theater of future military operations, prepared

ukraine, which was enslaved by them, under the control of the kiev regime , for a big war, and today they admit it. they admit it publicly openly, without hesitation. they seem to be proud of their treachery, calling both the minsk agreements and the normandy format a diplomatic bluff performance. it turns out that all the time when the donbass was on fire , when blood was shed, when russia was sincere? i want to emphasize that it was sincerely striving for a peaceful solution. they played on people's lives, they played, in fact, as they say in certain circles, with marked cards. this disgusting method of deceit has already been tried more than once, and earlier also shamelessly duplicitously. they behaved destroying yugoslavia and iraqi syria from this shame. the concept of honor never applies to them. trust in decency is not for them for the long centuries

of colonialism, the dictates of hegemony, they are used to that they are allowed to do everything used to spit on the whole world. it turned out that it was also dismissive of dominance. they also apply to the peoples of their own countries. their something. after all, they also cynically deceived with fables or deceived with fables about the search for peace about adherence to resolutions, the un security councils on donbass, are they really western, or have you turned into a symbol? total unscrupulous lies? we firmly defend not only our interests, but also our position that in the modern world there should be no division into so-called civilized countries, and all the rest, what is needed is an honest partnership, in principle, denying any exclusivity, the more aggressive , we were sincerely ready for a constructive dialogue with the west.

they insisted that both europe and the whole world need an indivisible, equal security system for all states, and for many years they offered our partners to discuss this idea together and work on its implementation, but in response they received an indistinct or hypocritical reaction. this is with regard to words, but there were also concrete actions - the expansion of nato to our borders, the creation of new positional areas of anti-missile defense in europe and asia decided to hide behind us with an umbrella this deployment of military contingents. and not only near the russian border, i want to emphasize. yes, actually, it's good. everyone knows not a single country in the world. there is no such number of military bases abroad as the united states of america has hundreds of them. i want to emphasize this hundreds of basses around the world the whole planet is enough just to look at

the map the whole world has witnessed how they got out of fundamental agreements in arms, including the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, and we have unilaterally tore apart the fundamental agreements that keep the world at peace. well, for some reason they didn’t do it, they just don’t do it. as you know, i finally, in december 2021, we officially sent draft treaties on security guarantees to the united states and nato, but we received, in fact, a direct refusal to all key positions of principle for us. then it finally became clear that the go-ahead for the implementation of the aggressive plans of dan and stop already. they are not going to increase the threat, and every day, the incoming information left no doubt that by february 22, everything was ready for the next bloody punitive action in the donbass against

which i remind you that the kiev regime back in 2014 abandoned both artillery and tanks and aircraft . we all remember the pictures very well, when they attacked donetsk from the air. they wore ayu, strikes, not only on him or on other cities in 2015, they again attempted a direct attack on the donbass while continuing the blockade of shelling terror against civilians. i will remember all this. completely contrary to the adopted by the security council, he completely pretended to the relevant documents that nothing was happening. i want to repeat it. they started the war. and we used force and used it to stop it.

those who planned a new attack on donetsk, on donbass, on luhansk, clearly understood that the next target was a strike on crimea and sevastol, and we knew and understood this, but now about such far-reaching plans in kyiv are also spoken openly. well , we revealed what we already knew so well. we protect the lives of people in our own home, and the goal of the west is unlimited power. he has already spent more than $ 150 billion on aiding and arming the kiev regime , for comparison, according to the economic cooperation organization , about $ 60 billion have been allocated to help the world's poorest states in the world for 2020-21.

at the same time, the flow of money for the war does not decrease , and they do not spare money to encourage unrest and coups in other countries, and again around the world at a recent conference in munich there were endless accusations against russia, one gets the impression that this was done only so that everyone would forget what the so-called west had done over the past decade. and it was they who let the genies out of the bottle plunged entire regions into chaos , according to the american experts themselves, as a result of wars. i want to draw attention to this. we didn’t come up with these figures , the americans themselves give as a result of the wars that the united states unleashed after 2001, died

nearly 900,000 people more than 38 million became refugees. now just delete. mankind pretends that nothing happened, but no one in the world has forgotten and will not forget this. none of them are considered saluting victims and tragedies, because, of course, trillions and trillions of dollars are at stake, the ability to continue to rob everyone , hiding behind words about democracy and freedoms , to instill neoliberal , inherently totalitarian values, to label entire countries and peoples, to publicly insult them leaders to suppress dissent in their own countries, creating the image of an enemy to distract people's attention under corruption scandals, because all this does not come off, we all see it all from the growing internal economic

social interethnic problems and contradictions, let me remind you in the thirties of the last century. the west actually opened the nazi way to power in germany, and in our time, they began to make an anti-russian project from ukraine. in fact, not new people who are at least a little immersed in history know perfectly well. ahem this project goes back to the 19th century and was nurtured in the austro-hungarian empires and poland and other countries with one goal to tear off these historical territories, which today are called ukraine, from our country. that's the purpose, nothing new. no, nothing new. i repeat everything, that is, the west accelerated the implementation of this project today, supporting the coup of 2014, because the bloody anti-state coup was anti-constitutional , as if nothing had happened, as if it

was necessary to inform even how much money was spent on this strategy. aggressive nationalism has recently laid the ideological basis of russophobia one of the brigades of the armed forces of ukraine is ashamed to say ashamed to us and i were given the name edelweiss as the nazi division, which participated in the deportation of jews in executions, prisoners of war in punitive operations against the partisans of yugoslavia italy greece apu and the national guard of ukraine , the chevrons of other ss units, which also hands up to the elbows in blood. the identification marks of the wehrmacht of pharmaceutical germany are applied to ukrainian armored vehicles. neo-nazis do not hide whose heirs they consider themselves to be. it is surprising that in the west, none of

those in power do not notice. why but because they are sorry for bad manners, do not give a damn about who to bet in the fight against us? in the fight against russia the main thing is that they fight against us against our country, which means that everyone can be used, and we saw that it was the same with terrorists and neo-nazis. at least the devil of a bald man can be used. please god , if only they would do their will, serve as a weapon against russia, the anti-russia project, in fact, part of the revanchist policy towards our country to create hotbeds of instability and conflicts directly within our borders, and then in the thirties of the last century and now there is only one plan, but to check the aggression to the east, the war in europe by proxy to eliminate competitors. we are not

at war with the people of ukraine about this. i have said many times, he became the people of ukraine itself became a hostage of the kiev regime and its western masters, who actually occupied this country in the political military economic sense for decades. destroyed ukrainian industry, plundered natural resources logical, the result was social degradation, a colossal increase in poverty and inequality. and in such conditions, of course, it is easy to scoop up material for military operations, but no one thought about people, they were prepared for slaughter, and in the end they turned into expendable material. it's sad, well, it's just scary to talk about it, but it's a fact. the responsibility for inciting the ukrainian conflict, for the escalation, for the increase in the number of its victims, lies entirely with the western elites, and of course with the current kiev regime, for

which the ukrainian people, in fact, do today's alien ukrainian regime serves not national interests, but the interests of third countries. the west uses ukraine both as a toran against russia and as a testing ground. i won't go into details of the attempts now. the west is well aware of the fact that at least the fighting on their plans to increase military supplies is well known, but one circumstance should be. it is clear to everyone. the more long-range western systems will come to ukraine, the further we will be forced from this threat from our borders. it `s naturally. targets to inflict russia as they say, this is a direct speech strategic defeat of russia what does this mean to us what is it? this means to end us forever, that is, they

intend to transfer a local conflict into a phase of global confrontation. that's exactly what we are. we understand this and will react accordingly, because in this case we are talking about the existence of our country. but they also cannot but be aware that it is impossible to defeat russia on the battlefield, therefore they are fighting against us all more aggressive informational attacks target primarily, of course, young people and younger generations, and here again they lie , constantly distort historical facts, do not stop attacks on our culture on the russian orthodox church and other traditional religious organizations of our country. see what they are doing to their own peoples destroying family

cultural and national identities. perversion, mockery of children, up to pedophilia, are declared the norm, the norm of their life. and the priests of the priests they force what they want, they do what i want to say here, adults have the right to live as they want. we only treated this in russia, always treated it that way, otherwise it doesn’t intrude into private life, and we are not going to do this. well i want to tell them, but look, excuse me. holy scripture is the main book of all other world religions. everything is said there, including that the family is the union of a man and a woman, but these nos and these sacred texts are

now being questioned. well, as it became known, the anglican church, for example, plans plans. true, for now, just consider the idea of ​​a gender-neutral god. what do you say? millions of people in the west understand that they are being led to a real spiritual catastrophe of the elite, well, frankly, they just go crazy. and this, it seems, is no longer being treated, but these are their problems, as i said, and we are obliged to protect our children, and we will do this to protect our children from degradation and his birth. it is obvious that the west will try to undermine and split our society and

rely on national traitors who have i always want to emphasize this one and the same self of contempt for my own fatherland and the desire to make money on the sale of this poison to those who are ready to pay for it, this has always been the case. who embarked on the path of direct betrayal, committing terrorist and other crimes directed against the security of our society, the territorial integrity of the country will be held accountable by law, but we will never be like the kiev regime and the western elites who are engaged in and were engaged in witch hunting before, we will not settle scores with those. who took a step aside retreated from the homeland let it remain on their conscience. let them live with it, let them live with it. the main thing is that people. citizens of russia gave them a moral assessment proud, i think we are all proud that

our multinational people. that our multinational people the vast majority of citizens took a principled position regarding the special military operation, understood, what is the meaning of the actions that we are doing, supported our actions to protect the donbass, in this support, first of all , real patriotism manifested itself, feeling which is, uh, a feeling that is historically inherent in our people. it amazes with its dignity of deep awareness. i emphasized each inseparable one’s own inextricable one’s own fate the fate of the fatherland everyone is the people of russia marriage and determination to say thank you to our heroes soldiers and officers of the army and

navy of the national guard employees of special services and all law enforcement agencies to soldiers, donetsk and lugansk corps volunteers a patriot who fights in the ranks combat army reserve. i want to apologize. sorry what's in i won't be able to name everyone during today's speech. you know, when i was preparing this speech, i wrote a long long list of these heroic units, then took it out. this is from today's speech because, as i said, it is impossible to name everyone and i was simply afraid to offend those whom i would not name. low bow to parents to wives low bow to parents to wives families of our defenders doctors and paramedic nurses who save the wounded railway workers and

the driver who supply the front with a builder who build fortifications restore housing roads civilian facilities, workers and engineers of defense plants who work. now almost around the clock in a few shift workers who reliably ensure the food security of the country. thank you. i thank the teachers who sincerely care about the young generations of russia, especially those teachers who work in essentially the most difficult front-line conditions, cultural figures who come to the war zone in the hospital to support the soldiers , volunteer officers who help the front and peaceful residents to journalists journalists, first of all, of course, war correspondents who take risks on the front line to tell the whole world the truth of russian

traditional religions of military priests, than a wise word supports and inspires people civil servants employees and entrepreneurs of all. who performs his professional civil and simply human spirit, special words. a special word to the residents of the donetsk and lugansk people's republics of the zaporozhye and kherson regions, you yourself are dear friends. you yourself determined their future in referendums. we made a firm choice, despite the threats and terror of neo-nazis in the conditions, when hostilities were very close, but there was and is nothing stronger than your determination to be with russia and your motherland. we have already begun and will

increase. what is the audience's reaction to the residents? donetsk luhansk zaporozhye and kherson we have already begun and will continue to build up a large-scale program of socio-economic recovery and development of these.