[000:00:00;00] today, february 23, defender of the fatherland day , vladimir putin congratulated veterans of the great patriotic war on the holiday of civilian personnel of the armed forces, as well as volunteers who participate in special military operations. dear comrades, dear veterans, i congratulate you on the holiday. happy defender of the fatherland day, this national holiday symbolizes the heroic history of our army, the fleet, the connection

of all generations. embodied in it. our deep gratitude to the faithful son and daughters of the fatherland to all who fought against the enemy for their native land. with honor and victory he went through any trials. he crushed foreign invasions, so it was on lake peipus and kulikovo field near poltava and borodino and in the victorious may 1945. on this day, low bows are the warmest words to our dear veterans who defeated nazism and defended the freedom and independence of their homeland. your exploits during the great patriotic war will forever remain in the historical memory of our people, as a vivid example of patriotism and courage will serve as an inexhaustible source of spiritual strength. current generation

russian soldiers and officers protect and increase the military traditions of their grandfathers and the righteous, i want to sincerely congratulate the volunteers of the mobilized citizens of specialists of various professions who participate in a special military operation on the holiday. now our fighters are heroically fighting nazism, which has taken root in ukraine, defending our people in our historical territories , fighting courageously and heroically. dear comrades, a modern, efficient army and navy are a guarantee of the country's security and sovereignty a guarantee of its stable development of its future and, therefore, the strengthening of its defense capability. we , as before, will give priority attention, based on real combat experience.

we will lead a balanced qualitative development of all components of the armed forces , improve the system of training units and subunits, a solid foundation. here, the soldiers , sergeants, officers, who showed themselves in the best possible way during the fighting on the front line, will continue to saturate the troops with advanced equipment. it's a new percussion system means of reconnaissance and communications drones and artillery systems. now our industry is rapidly increasing the production of the entire line. usually , armaments are mastering the serial production of promising models for the army, fleet of the aerospace forces, increased attention, as before. let's focus on strengthening the nuclear triad this year , the first launchers of the sarmat missile system from a new heavy missile are on combat duty.

we will continue mass production of air-based hypersonic complexes dagger i we will begin mass deliveries of zircon sea-based hypersonic missiles. with the adoption of the nuclear submarine project bari and imperator alexander iii into the navy, the share of modern weapons and equipment in the naval strategic nuclear forces will reach 100%. in the coming years, the combat strength of the fleet will be replenished with three more cruisers of this project. dear friends, our people believe in you, in the defenders of russia, in your reliability, determination, devotion to the fatherland and the oath. millions of people sincerely , at the call of their hearts, help the fighters on the front lines and this indestructible unity is the guarantee of our victory

once again i congratulate you on the holiday. i wish good health and success in serving the motherland , well-being to your family and friends. on wednesday , vladimir putin took part in a rally at the luzhniki stadium, where he delivered a speech from the stage that would resonate. in each of the entire people of russia today, the defender of the fatherland , together with the military, our country, its interests , language, culture, are protected by citizens next to the president, at that moment there were more than 200,000 participants in the trunk. gathered at a patriotic event in the center of the capital and february frosts. no one was frightened with the audience and our correspondent alexey golovkov also visited the arena. defender of the fatherland day is only tomorrow, but the country begins to celebrate today in luzhniki a grandiose concert for several hours about its heroes, russia sings in all

musical languages. have mercy. the stadium today is in white-blue-red colors to honor russia in its defenders who perform their duty on the fields of the special military operation zone. there are almost 80,000 people here. this is the largest arena in the country. and then all those who wanted to come, the packed concert did not fit here, and now the real heroes of a special military operation of various ranks and ages enter the stage, but all with medal throwers , the head of state appears at the rally after them. vladimir putin greets everyone and tells that the holiday is february 23, which means that we are meeting with you personally for him. protective the phrase in these words is something powerful huge. i would say mystical and

holy not without reason one of the most famous prayers begins with the words our father father father and in there is something very close to each person. you are also talking about the motherland, we are talking about the family, we are talking about something huge , powerful and at the same time close to the heart of every person, this is the motherland, this is the family, and by and large, the motherland is the family, in our heart it is people are the same. here they stand, who make decisions for themselves to protect the most sacred and dearest thing that we have a family and homeland, the head of state. reminds me how important this kind of nationwide support for the soldiers

of the russian army is now. and here we are with you gathered for an essentially festive event, but i know that just now i was just listening to the military leadership of the country above that right now there is a battle on our historical borders, for our people, it is being fought by the same courageous fighters who are now standing here next to us . they fight heroically courageously bravely. we are proud of them and we are proud of them three times. hooray! hooray! they need to hear our greetings. today they are supported by all countries. and this means that everyone who does this, to a certain extent , is also a defender of the fatherland. all all our people are today the defenders

of the fatherland, low bow to all. i congratulate you on the upcoming holiday, defender of the fatherland day, and now the russian anthem sounds throughout the stadium and the whole country. vladimir putin again shakes hands with the military and manages to talk about something with one of the officers , lieutenant colonel of the airborne forces andrei frolov, to the commander in chief of many heroes and health and strength for fulfillment of all tasks, well, the atmosphere in luzhniki is such that emotions overwhelm everyone and you don’t want to leave. we are not

injured for the unity of the russian people ur russia when it comes to people like yuri gagarin, a volunteer from chelyabinsk with the call sign angel in his family has seven children, and he went to the front to save other kids and brought 367 children out of the destroyed mariupol in the midst of the fighting. let's go and here they are again together on the same stage marine angel and the boys and girls he saved. thank you. children of donbass children of mariupol these are our children and we the russian army is obliged to protect this people and these children, of course, it is about such people that

oleg gazmanov sings in his song and sings along with him the entire stadium. there are a lot of singing heroes such as the artists of the luhansk philharmonic. they went to the front as volunteers. and now with awards let not for long, but again on stage. these february holiday dates are now forever historical.

they protect the interests of our country, our country is big and huge, and which we are obliged to pass on to the next generations exactly, since our ancestors in the new regions of russia handed over the country to us, still under the impression of the president’s message to the federal assembly, which sounded the day before. we listened to this for the first time yesterday. the message of the president, as the regions of russia, this is a very significant historical event that is important for us. i think that's the reason, uh, the president's message was singled out. so much attention to our republics, and more and more new stories about the heroes of donbass are heard on the stage maria pirogova was a volunteer helped to take the elderly out of donetsk and died during the shelling of the city by ukrainian

nationalists needs our help, because the girl so wanted to record her song , but what she didn’t finish singing was finished today at luzhniki . azamat turlanov, a hereditary tanker, was not conquered, two of his grandfathers drove the tanks and he himself was the commander of the t-90 car. during the battle, the heroism of azamat was shot down from a drone and the reliability of the equipment was saved by the defense crew - these are not only people, not only soldiers, fighters, but also defense - this is iron armor. i want to say a big thank you to the defense workers of the plant with the structure, which helps you save us our lives. and to bring closer

the day of our great victory and about the dead comrades ivan lukin poets, the actor served as a machine gunner in the sea. the infantry of his unit was surrounded for a whole day. ivan covered the retreat of his comrades until he was killed by a ukrainian bullet. sniper. the father of the deceased hero is addressing the country. victory only victory will give us all life. son a new future about your children an opportunity to be proud of the country in which they live you and i wanted a soldier for two more new russian regions tomorrow's holiday. for the first time it returns to the calendar after a long break under the pretext of decommunization, they tried to destroy the memory of the soviet and russian armies, zaporozhye and

kherson region, but the unity of our country did not come out in our life as real holidays and everyone is actually celebrating today, look what kind of inspiration today. i feel today what i felt. we are almost 70 years old even more, but in recent years we have been snatched out of our lives the opportunity to be with friends close to a large native family a name that russia, and on the stage there is already a new generation of patriotic performers, the singer shaman and his hit, let's rise up. and, of course, such a concert could not end, without the performance of this group, the words of the lyube song

sound for every defender of the fatherland. there is no path for him. karpukhina tonkosimovich andrey sorokin and oleg shavyrin to conduct. russia perceives what is happening in ukraine as a war of survival with the collective west , vasily nebenzya said this after the ped of our country at the un, speaking at the general assembly of the organization na meeting of ukraine tried to put to a vote a resolution on the conflict regulation, which, according to benzia, is frankly anti-russian and harmful . the post before our country emphasized that only the balancing amendments of belarus make the resolution of life possible. however, as stressed not benzia dialogue. it is necessary to conduct not with i do not have a strain of the kiev regime, but with

those who stand behind him? foreign affairs and understanding as a war with the west for survival for the future of our country and our children for our identity, a war in which just like 80 years ago, we were challenged by an insidious and powerful enemy who wanted to take away our lands and repair us russophobia that broke through calls to dismember our country german tanks again sent to fight the russians calls to hang red stars on clothes for those who do not want to wants to renounce russian identity only reinforces this impression, and this plan began to be implemented, not now, but at least in 2014, the creation of a hostile regime on our borders and strengthening it. the russian armed forces carried out strikes on the ammunition depots of two ukrainian brigades in the kherson region were informed about this by

the ministry of defense, and a workshop for the production and repair of large-caliber mortars and ammunition for the armed forces was destroyed near the city of sumy, as the department specified during the day. in the donetsk direction alone, the militants lost up to 250 people more than 100 in the akopip and yuzhno-donetsk direction reports of the special operation in the report of alexander missiles cover the target radius of destruction of 4 football fields. a large number of infantry in the marinka area, ukrainian neo-nazis have created

a powerful fortified area. artillerymen of the southern military district are hitting again and again here , how many packages? multiple launch rocket systems, the machine changed the grad system at the combat post, it is not necessary to install. uh,

a compass for orienting the car on the ground. you don’t need to take any devices to link the car with gps navigation devices, or a map there, that is, all this is built into the car. here i am second in a position like you guess? now it is important to collapse the combat installation and leave the position as quickly as possible, because the enemy can respond at any moment in a matter of minutes to replenish ammunition and to the firing line. a new target is enemy armor equipment with single such machine guns soldiers continue to fire at donetsk and its surroundings with several rockets at once. released on makiivka at night, the water got into the sanatorium of the dispensary solnechny

military facilities. not here, medical purpose large-caliber shells of american m-77 howitzers. volpov alexander katsuba konstantin piunov andrey rudenko and the bondarenko rivers to lead the donetsk people's republic russian military in the kherson region do not let the enemy get bored on the right bank of the dnieper our tankers successfully hit targets that are at a considerable distance and out of line of sight according to the coordinates obtained with the help of drones, covered fire positions destroyed observation posts, foreign military equipment from the line of contact reportage. margarita semenyuk

freedom from terrorist work by all means, winding roads through the kherson forests would have his calculation go to positions without any delay, shoot quickly and accurately. these gunners have been in the zone from the first days. throughout the year they have been both on the offensive and in defense, they took cities and threw the enemy back from our line on august 29. that was the attack. as a result of which a lot was destroyed in the village of petrovka. well, armored vehicles, that is, these are armored personnel carriers. here, a lot of wheeled equipment was destroyed as a result. i was injured and was evacuated. and at the end of october he returned back after rehabilitation continuously for three days.

my unit and i fought off the attack. uh , due to the fact that we worked out competently. uh, the company was able to recapture. a counteroffensive, that is, we supported them with fire , personally knocked out two tanks with a direct hit from a self- propelled carnation, thus after our work. this is where we live. three of us to reduce the case of arrivals of losses among personnel, so that there would not be a large clusters of people on the shelves of books on the wall icons of children's drawings, letters fighters maintain, damn it, even order and create comfort, a little girl yes, she sent me too. here

she came across a drawing with words. so i want to find this girl at the end of the war, buy a big, big doll, because i think by that age she won’t have time to grow up, so we have such, so to speak, internal agreements among the fighters. we store everything for us, it is very warm. we understand that no, to the end victory is spoken with your support of opponents already there is a new coordinate going

along the entire line of contact of possibility. mikhail mishustin instructed the deputy prime ministers to work out the execution of the instructions from the message by march 7, mishustin distributed responsibility for the implementation of the instructions among his deputies. so andrey belousov will oversee issues related to the preparation of additional measures that have divided the economy for tatyana golikova and a fund has been assigned to support veterans and the families of the deceased participants, a set of instructions for additional indexation of the minimum wage and the mat of capital in new regions minister of industry and trade. denis manturov should present ideas for launching a special program of preferential rental housing for agricultural workers, expanding tax incentives to control financial programs. funding for the program of modernization of housing and communal services will be marat khusnulin. viktor zolotov handed over the president's letter to the main military clinical hospital of the national guard. he also presented the medals for courage to the doctors

for rescuing the dead and the medals of the thief. zolotov noted the scientific potential of the hospital, based on unique experience, thanks to which advanced technological developments appear. he also congratulated the doctors on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the hospital and on the upcoming defender of the fatherland day. thank you for your daily hard, selfless work, the impeccable performance of your duties and loyalty to medical and military duty, i have no doubt that thousands of our military personnel and employees of their families are now joining these words as a sign of gratitude for saved by you. life and health is absolutely true. lord hospital is in safe hands governor of st. petersburg on the eve of defender of the fatherland day visited the participants of his military medical academy named after kirov more zinaida kurbatova

the famous corridors of the military medical academy in st. they not only receive treatment, but also study in parallel for 3 months , receive a new profession, those who have previously graduated from high school will be awarded the title of ensign by the holder of higher education lieutenant. they will be able to work in the system of the ministry of defense, in addition to social rehabilitation, sports pension, which participates in national competitions, hockey players, football players, a lot of interesting things. what a holiday without a brass band we don’t leave our own. this is how the current competitions , master classes in para-olympic sport at the engel academy were called, the holiday was opened there by quarrels. here, the oldest military hospital at the same time an educational institution

of the country has long been successfully used sports rehabilitation. today the paralympians are holding master classes in nine sports - this is ping-pong, fencing, powerlifting, darts fighters, tried themselves in each of them to choose a sport to their liking. i often go to various sports competitions under adaptive sports and see how our guys fight. literally, we recently opened. ah, the ice palace. and i saw a team of hockey guys there who play. i want to congratulate all of you on the upcoming defender of the fatherland day. photos for memory after the end of treatment, former patients will disperse around the country to their place of service. kiln

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