today, february 23, defender of the fatherland day , vladimir putin congratulated the personnel of the civilian personnel of the armed forces, as well as volunteers who are participating in a special military operation, on the veterans day. 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 and the naval connection of all generations.

embodied in it. our deep gratitude to the faithful son and daughters of the fatherland to all those who , beggar for themselves, fought with the enemy for their native land with honor and victory passed through any trials of 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. the current generation of soldiers and officers of russia preserves and

enhances the military traditions of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers. i want to sincerely congratulate holiday military personnel volunteers are mobilized citizens of specialists of various professions who participate in a special military operation. 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 will continue to prioritize attention, based on real combat experience. we will conduct 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. this is a new strike system , reconnaissance and communications equipment, drones and artillery systems. now our industry is rapidly increasing the pace of honey production of the entire line. usually , armaments are mastered by the serial production of promising models for the army and fleet of the aerospace forces. increased attention, as before, will be paid to strengthening the nuclear triad this year , the first launchers of the sarmat missile system from the new heavy missile are on combat duty. we will continue mass production

of dagger air-launched hypersonic missiles and begin mass deliveries of sea-launched tserkov hypersonic missiles. with the adoption of the combat composition of the navy nuclear submarine of the bari project and imperator alexander iii, 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. wish good health and success in serving the motherland

, prosperity to your family and friends. on wednesday , vladimir putin took part in the luzhniki concert rally, 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 interest and language of culture are protected by citizens next to the president at that moment there were participants in a special operation in total more than 200,000 people. gathered at a patriotic event in the center of the capital and february frosts. no one was scared with the audience on the arena was visited by our correspondent alexey golovkov. 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. the whole stadium today

is in white-blue-red colors, russia is honored 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 everyone who wanted to come packed with a concert did not fit here, and now the stage comes to real heroes of the special military operation of different ranks and ages, but all with orders and medals , 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 meet personally for him. with you father stop, in this phrase in these words there 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

there is something very close to everyone in this to a 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 decide for themselves to defend the most sacred and dearest thing that we have a family and homeland. the head of state recalls how important such nationwide support to the soldiers of the russian army is now. and here we are gathered here for what is essentially a river event, but i i know that just now i was listening to the military

leadership of the country above that a battle is going on right now on our historical borders, for our people, it is being fought by the same courageous fighters who are now standing next to us here. they fight heroically courageously bravely. we are proud of them, proud of them and in them honor thrice cheers they should hear our greetings. today they are supported by all the country. and this means that everyone who does this to a certain degree is also a defender of the fatherland. everything is there, our people are today the defenders of the fatherland, low bow to all. i congratulate you on the upcoming

holiday. 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 and the strength to complete all the tasks, well , the atmosphere in luzhniki is such that emotions overwhelm everyone doesn't want to leave. for the unity of the russian people ura and

how to hold on, when it comes to people like yuri gagarin, a volunteer from chelyabinsk with the call sign of an angel, there are seven children in his family, and he went to the front to save other kids and brought 367 children out of the destroyed mariupol at the height 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. uncle of donbass children of mariupol these are our children and we of the russian army are obliged to protect these people and these children, of course, it is about such people that oleg gazmanov sings in his song and the whole stadium sings along with him. there

are many singing heroes such as the artists of the luhansk philharmonic, 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, we are still impressed by the message of the president to the federal assembly, so that it sounded the day before, we listened to this message of the president for the first time yesterday, as a region of russia, this is a very significant historical event that is important for us. i think that's the reason why, uh, the president's message was given. 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

the fact that she did not finish singing was finished today in the luzhniki water , azamat turlanov, a hereditary tanker, was not conquered, the tanks were driven by two his grandfather and he himself is 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 saved the weight . the defense crew is not only people, not only soldiers are fighters, but also defense is iron armor. i want to say a big thank you to the defense industry, which helps us save 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 was killed by a ukrainian bullet. a sniper in the country is addressed by the father of a deceased hero victory is only victory russia's life is new, the future is about your children the 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, but it did not work out. the unity of our country in our history

, our holidays, real holidays and all on the very in fact, i feel today what we felt, we have been feeling for almost 70 years even more , but in recent years they have snatched from us the opportunity to be with friends close to a large native family, the name that russia and on the stage is already a new generation of patriotic performers singer shaman and his hit, let's call. without the performance of this group, the words of the song lube sound like for every defender of the fatherland no , it is more expensive for their boys,

andrey sorokin and oleg shavyrin tonkosimovich. 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, also near the city of sumy, a workshop for the production and repair of large-caliber mortars and ammunition was destroyed, as the department clarified during the day, only in the donetsk direction, the militants lost up to 250 people more than 100 on kupyansky and yuzhny in donetsk, the latest reports of the special operation in oleksandr’s report

, tornado multiple launch rocket systems support the advancement of our assault groups in the marinka area and missiles cover the target radius defeat four football fields. three cars were kindled, respectively, there and the rest were visited by fragments also hit a large number of infantry in the marinka area. ukrainian neo-nazis have created a powerful fortified area, the gunners of the southern military district are hitting here again and again. how many kilograms they fly for 20 km, the maximum distance is hard to load. no, it's not hard. the main thing is that there should be a goal, otherwise we will all manage to do everything on board this combat vehicle , the inscription is a witch, because

it was fast and accurate, we hit quickly, us, of course, fragments. well, no loss. everything went well with us in the development of multiple launch rocket systems, the machine changed the grad system at the combat post to orient the machine 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. well, they are hitting with three volleys , for sure, right now it is important to collapse the unit installation and leave the position as quickly as possible, because the enemy can respond at any moment in a matter of minutes to replenish the ammunition and to the firing line. new target enemy

armored vehicles single. so i'm already with a machine gun. soldiers continue to fire at donetsk and its surroundings with several rockets at once. released in makiivka at night. wow, it's attacking. more missiles hit the solnechny sanatorium of military facilities. there is no medical appointment here, the former sanatorium of the solnechny dispensary is already kirovsky district. donetsk large-caliber shells, american m-77 howitzers hit the homes of civilians only today ukrainian militants. produced in the city more than fifty volleys alexander katsuba konstantin pinov andrey rudenko to lead.

donetsk people's republic the 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 located at a considerable distance out of line of sight according to the coordinates obtained with the help of drones, closed firing positions are destroyed observation posts, foreign military equipment with the line of contact reportage. margarita semenyuk he said there are coordinates for the firing point the enemy is using a mortar. right now the artillery will express. the enemy on the right bank of the dnieper, inconspicuous by winding roads through the kherson forests, combat crews leave for positions without 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 got 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 repulse the counteroffensive, that is, we supported them with fire; i personally knocked out two tanks with a direct hit from a self-propelled carnation, thus after our work.

three people us to reduce the case arrivals, losses among personnel, so that there is not a large accumulation of people on the shelves of books on the wall, icons of children's drawings, letters , fighters maintain, damn it, even order and create coziness, 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 thought by that age i didn’t have time to grow up, therefore, we have such, so to speak, internal agreements among the fighters. we store everything for us, it is very warm. we understand that there is no step back with your support of opponents.

three people were wounded after the shelling of the city of shebekino in the belgorod region, including a man with shrapnel wounds. private houses were damaged in extremely serious condition after repeated shelling from the ukrainian side in shebekino, a shopping center caught fire more from belgorod region alexander korobov three arrivals were recorded in the area of ​​chekhov street, one of the shells hit the roof of this building. it was completely destroyed by the blast wave, broken glass and scattered wooden floors and stones were also

cut off the power line. shubeite center was lucky that there was no one in this house at the time of arrival. otherwise, disaster would not have been avoided. but in the neighboring yard , andrey ivanteev was doing household chores. the loud list forced the man to hide in the basement in the basement, when he only managed to open it in the basement and i was explodingly excited. he just abandoned his sister was at work. mom is at home. well, she hid in such a deep corridor, everything is whole there, everyone is alive, there are no victims, to the private sector three people came for the main blow. we received injuries of varying degrees of severity , the houses were badly damaged , the roofs of the apiary facades and fences were demolished by the blast wave, not a single whole glass, black failures. windows , the remains of the roof lie on the ground inside, burnt boards and goods. this is all that remains of the mall. one of the shells hit the building as a result of the explosion , a fire started, the wooden floors caught fire, they could not stand it and the roof of one section of the shopping center collapsed. it's good that at

this moment people have already managed to leave the building with fire brigades quickly coped with the fire. the consequences of the art raid were catastrophic in this wing of the building , the entire second floor was destroyed. they began to cover the building of the shopping center with sandbags , but unfortunately, this did not help much, because the projectile flew clearly into the roof of the roof, explosions shook the city for several minutes, the neighboring building was more fortunate. everything is very loud there, the wave is good, and before that we got there, we were just working when there was shelling and today it also happened. so we worked. well, very loud before these sounds they were loud when it arrived. terribly , about 10 arrivals counted residents during this shelling from behind, he was not alone. a lot of people have already begun to eliminate the consequences of restoration work on the streets alexander korobov vladislav kharchenko

vyacheslav podzulkov and vladislav pluzhnik, 200, belgorod region. mikhail mishustin instructed the deputy prime ministers to work out the execution of instructions by march 7, and from the message mishustin distributed responsibility for the implementation of instructions among his deputies. so andrey belousov will oversee issues related to the preparation of additional measures, which divided the economy for tatyana golikova and assigned a fund to support veterans and families of deceased participants, the order was issued for additional indexation of the minimum wage and mat capital in new regions. minister of industry and trade denis manturov should present ideas for launching a special program of preferential rental housing for workers oppk expansion of tax incentives to control the financing of the program for the modernization of housing and communal services will be marat khusnili all instructions from the president and from the message to the federal assembly, the government should promptly take the job of it at the fireplace meeting. mikhail mishustin said that first of all , it was about creating a state fund

that would help veterans of the special operation and the families of the dead military. the task of this structure is to coordinate the provision of social and psychological support, the fund will also resolve issues of sanitary-resort treatment and rehabilitation , help in finding employment and professional development. people's republics in a message to the federal assembly announced a step-by-step plan the work of the government in all key areas, we are talking about the support of relatives of all participants in the special military operation, the president stressed that it is important to surround them with care and honor, responding to all questions for their needs, including in a short time, everything should be done to make the special fund work, who will provide targeted personal assistance. families of fallen fighters and veterans of the special military operation should open its branch. in each region of the country, by the end of this year,

it is necessary to quickly take work the instructions of the head of state controls the implementation, and all measures that were laid down by the government's message will be dmitrievich gagarinkovich. please keep all these questions under special consideration.

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