the child me there came to the fire. please, but i don’t remember this, in 2014, the employees of the ministry of emergency situations of the dpr saved more than 7.5 thousand people. this is not counting those people who were evacuated from the basements of destroyed buildings and taken to a safe place, if they are included in the statistics, the number will be ten times higher. at this moment in moscow, the fireworks begin. in honor of defender of the fatherland day , artillery volleys sound immediately at 14 metropolitan sites in the victory park on poklonnaya gora, as well as in the city center on the territory of the luzhniki olympic complex they are now saluting in zelenograd and in new moscow, even in the southwestern park and near the square of the 55th anniversary of the victory, at all sites they will give 30

volleys of salute, on the occasion of defender of the fatherland day. these minutes give it to her in other russian cities. in st. petersburg, they can now be seen in the peter and paul fortress , not far away in kolpino, festive volleys . also now in the cities of the heroes of sevastopol kerch in volgograd, murmansk, novorossiysk , smolensk tula, salutes also painted the sky in all cities where stationed headquarters military districts of the fleets of the armies. and the caspian flotilla on defender of the fatherland day, vladimir putin laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier,

and each planted flowers on the alley of hero cities and cities of military glory after the ceremony, the president spoke with veterans and combatants. he spoke in detail about the creation of a state fund to support the participants, he promised to give the status of a veteran to all donbass militias and to consider additional guarantees for military priests , alexei petrov has all the details a guard of honor, a military band sets the pace and mood of the fighting. cadets are volunteers. tomb of the unknown soldier near the kremlin wall. tribute to the memory of the heroes of the great patriotic war this year. i have a defender of the fatherland, a special meaning of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of officers volunteers again on the front line again fighting nazism every movement is a wreath of gratitude for that victory, which came at such a price, a symbol of the country's inflexibility.

putin approaches the memorial kneels in memory of those who did not return from the fields battles. the anthem of russia sounds the president lays flowers on everyone who came to the ceremony here a conversation starts, including about putin's recent initiative to your message. i want to thank you for the support of the participants in the special military operation, this is a very important decision for all of us. it is the sacred

duty of the state to take care of those who defend the country. we e and write in e, purely the state structure should be advised here by the deputies of the ministry of commerce. we write it. directly it should be such a powerful, good structure. the most important thing for every person. it was fixed for each family to close, and this is a separate social work that will work with people on a long-range basis and, uh, we will definitely ensure that this mechanism functions as it should, in order to help people, the next step. so we write it to work with all other categories. uh people who deserve and uh who the states are occupied by the people's militia, these fighters have the status of veterans of the dnr lpr, but speaking of support, you need to remember about many other military men, but if you are in case that the new territories are part of russia, most often they

were fired due to injuries, so they were not citizens russia so that these categories of guys do not fall out. from this system, of course. yes, i would like these guys. the status of a veteran of the combat operations of the russian federation was awarded to the invalid of the russian federation and they were fully deserved assistance from states. these are people who practically. well, almost alone, they fought for their people, fought. now everyone has become citizens of russia and, of course, we must make a list of people who should be

and will be provided with support. and the cypriot hero of the soviet union, who passed through afghanistan, today helps the wounded in the zone of his conduct , is trying to find an approach to everyone who needs support . one thing is in a trench on the front line; it will break again. yes, even if he is without a hand, let's say. here, but another thing, you see priunas and that's it. yes, and here a careful approach is needed, just like the military volunteer volunteer priests risk their lives to thank for the fact that their message is the merit of the military clergy of the russian federation

draft decree, and additional guarantees that will affect our priesthood, and they will be able to receive payments in case wounds. god forbid, yeah well, they talked about the patriarch quite recently. we met with him we discussed all these questions, and the most holy ones raised this question, of course, unconditionally. yes, what is the difference between the lighting that goes under charge, and all other military personnel in this sense, practically nothing and of course, of course, there will be people of different

generations at the ceremony, many young volunteers who help both the army and the civilian population, we help local residents, but military families, and we also collect humanitarian aid throughout the city, throughout the region as part of the action we are together. uh, we go to the warehouse sorting humanitarian aid sending servicemen. where is she leading such young people making a huge contribution to the common cause, the guys behind are quite young. so when i delivered the message, the last words were that the truth is on our side, just looking at the guys, i want to add that the future is definitely ours. but there is no future without the support of the people who represent our army here, the support of the clergy. yes, we are looking forward to it and , uh, to the future, the future of our joint work. thank you thank you. thank you in front of

the memorial solemn march rota guard of honor thunders, a military band. by tradition, the president of russia lays red carnations to the memorial signs of hero cities, odessa brest fortress, minsk leningrad stalingrad sevastopol kerch smolensk all were together against a common enemy. vladimir putin laid flowers to the cities of military glory alexei voskoboinikov yuri patnikov anastasia matveeva 200 now let's turn to clients of news agencies vladimir putin spoke by phone with armenian prime minister nikol pashinyan this evening took place, at the initiative of the armenian side , pashinyan informed the russian leader about

the results of the meeting with the president of azerbaijan or hamam aliyev in munich on february 18, as well as about his other conversations with foreign partners. they also discussed the implementation of a set of tripartite agreements between the leaders of russia, armenia and azerbaijan, in order to ensure security in the region. well, the current situation on the armenian-azerbaijani border was also touched upon and we agreed to continue contacts at various levels. vladimir putin signed a law that limits the discount on russian urals oil in relation to the brand price. the measure was adopted and documents for calculating oil taxes were published on the legal information portal and clarifies the methodology for determining prices. the new rules will come into force on april 1. another paragraph of this law allows gazpromneft. within 6 years to receive a tax deduction for the met, the consequences must be returned to the federal budget, the finances received from the tax deduction will be used to build infrastructure for transportation of liquid hydrocarbons from

fields in yamal russian troops inflicted a comprehensive fire defeat all south of donetsk , the ministry of defense reported this today, the military department also stated. that the advance continues in the donetsk direction, intense battles are now also taking place under the city, crime in the lugansk people's republic scouts of the western military district previously reported on the advance. on this sector of the front. they are supported by the calculations of grads . more details about the situation in the report of our war correspondent yevgeny poddubny, the seventy-sixth guards airborne assault division is knocking out the enemy and the checkpoints that are located in the forest plantation between flint and belogorovka at the forward control point of our scouts adjust the lights of the pages and combat vehicles control the flanks so that the infantry can take the fortified

positions of the kiev regime without loss. together with motorized rifle units, they were able to significantly improve so. in the flint area , a few months ago, the enemy planned to storm the flint one. and in general to break through the line of defense in the direction of the flint and the flint, now the initiative is on the side of the russian army and now the main task of the group is to take advantageous commanding heights in the flint area further to the flint. the enemy is forced to transfer personnel and armored vehicles under the flint reserves. the kiev regime literally plugs holes in the defense . the unit is trying to counterattack in order to slow down the pace

of our units of the counterattack, unsuccessfully. this is how the situation looks on the map here and the so -called tursky ledges, belogorsk. as a result of competent tactical actions of russian paratroopers and motorized riflemen, the enemy has already left the direction of part of the forest plantations and heights that are beneficial for active defense, as a result of competent tactical actions , russian paratroopers and motorized riflemen are fighting in armored groups , the urgent service of the airborne forces mobilized behind everyone’s backs, but they no longer look like mobilized fighters, the necessary and complex combat experience quickly appeared here. you have personally developed hostilities. this is what you imagined when you were called upon to logically say that yes, no matter how no one expected, then you have a snowsack, no one expected any there pranks of children's adversary is strong, the enemy is nothing no one doesn't really feel sorry for anyone. he not so long ago was a mortar attack. we caught a goose. everything is fine. all are alive

and well. bet on high-precision systems from him defeating western artillery drones kamikaze but as a result, our fighters have eliminated this advantage only in the last few weeks. only here , specialists destroyed several dozen british howitzers, which, capable of firing actively with rocket projectiles, deprives the formation of the kiev regime, the ability to conduct an effective counter-battery fight and , accordingly, the enemy infantry becomes more vulnerable to reconnaissance. the contours of the war zone is under constant control. today, here everyone casually congratulates each other on the holiday in passing, because the situation is tense , though the fighters, who until recently were civilians, say that they have inner feelings from the defender of the fatherland day. now completely different, realistic february 23 today defender of the fatherland. you celebrate, probably

for the first time at the forefront, the feeling of the holiday, has it changed or not? yes, well, of course, it has changed, that is, it has been celebrated before, and on february 23, as if the day of the defender of the fatherland, and here uh, i celebrate and already literally defend their homeland, their fatherland , of course, the pride has changed, the enemy has become more. now, with all his might, he is trying to stabilize the situation in the water in the name of the minimum possible and reserves, despite the difficult situation, the kiev regime continues to form an offensive group in the rear in order to try to organize something new. counteroffensive in one of the key directions evgeny like alexander pushin dmitry maslennikov ruben mirobov and stanislav lvovsky to lead the front under the criminal donetsk today was under heavy shelling. at the most powerful in recent weeks in the petrovsky district, an entire ambulance brigade was killed, another 10 employees of the ministry of emergency situations were

injured, and in the budyonnovsky district , a local resident became a victim. another death was reported, but the exact number of dead and injured is still being specified from donetsk report by yevgeny davydov ukrainian artillery has been hitting the voroshilovsky district of donetsk all day with large caliber shells, one after another, this is rosa luxembourg street, almost the very center. donetsk eyewitnesses heard several hits. here is one funnel, the second third, maybe there is a hit and a little further down the street. here, the projectile actually flew into the courtyard of the children's music college. eyewitnesses tell billy at intervals of several seconds. the first explosion was heard on the roadway, and people managed to hide. thank you for staying alive, as if on this people we started on the street from arrival. i ran away right away, this is

the very center. this i do not know how a music school. there is a mathematical school nearby, there is another school a little further. well, where is it, what kind of hostilities are taking place, they just give the maidan here. these weapons and they give them to deliver scum, no, soviet. here they show. yes, you live in a neighboring house , several residential buildings are damaged everywhere huge, smoking funnels, a funnel with a depth, probably no less than human height , that it was incomprehensible, but obviously this is not a rso, but something much more powerful, such fragments can now be found here on rosa luxembourg street, now we are waiting for investigators. they 'll be more precise. what kind of projectile is supposedly yes hammer was here about five arrivals next to the college of music projectiles, lay down in a heap obviously beaten. aiming at the residential sector. broken windows, slashed

by fragments of the wall in a music college actor, it seems she still does not understand how she lucky. more random. and so i jumped out , i don’t even know where to run, and fell loudly today also in the rear proletarsky and front-line petrovsky districts of the city, a. there, a shell exploded next to an ambulance. four medics came to rescue the wounded, but they themselves came under fire today, unfortunately, as a result of shelling from the armed forces of all ukraine , an ambulance from the city of donetsk died. the fifth substation of the dead four. uh, three immediately died on the spot while assisting their uh employee. ours died already on operation under fire was a detachment of republican rescuers, just arrived at the call and an explosion was heard on the towers as a result of falling

under fire from the armed formation of ukraine, two departments, the sixth fire and rescue unit of the petrovsky district, suffered. donetsk total injured 10 employees massaged the city continues and in these minutes the exact number of dead civilians is still unknown. yevgeny davydov yaroslav borisov mikhail yemelin andrey rudenko oleg bondarenko news from the donetsk people's republic suicidal conflict, increasing the supply of weapons to kiev, this was stated by the permanent representative of russia to the un, speaking at a meeting of the security council , according to vasily nebenzya, the eu is discussing. how best to dismember and destroy russia and all previous statements of good neighborliness were just fables to cover up the fight against moscow and the hands of kiev, as the european union itself emphasized, meanwhile, it turned into an appendage of the united states and eventually swallowed even undermining the northern streams, covering up traces of its older brother. i am glad that i jumped off the russian gas needles the european union is addicted to hard drugs

, expensive american liquefied natural gas to maintain the functioning of the economy in only one energy aspect in 2022 spent 710 billion euros, in other words , european, liberal and market economies. today they survive at the expense of the state, subsidies subsidies, but the prosperity of economic power was based primarily on russian cheap energy. as soon as they left for europe , it became an economic ear, they could not be naked, and capacious production stretched across the ocean. to the joys of an older brother. gossips. they say that it was this chantona that sought from the very beginning of the conflict to destroy its european competitors. the head of the russian delegation to the osce parliamentary assembly urged those who arrange provocations against our country to leave the meeting during today's debate, a number of delegates from both western and baltic countries made sharp attacks against moscow but this was not

limited to when the representative of belarus andrey savinykh outlined minsk's position on the crisis behind his back they tried to deploy ukrainian flag more about the conditions under which russia has to conduct a dialogue with the european union from vienna, a report by our european correspondent osya emelyanova, hardly anyone thought that laying wreaths in vienna, liberated by soviet soldiers , could ever become a prohibited event. well, austria did it and banned these carnations, now it’s not, the russian delegation was not allowed to the event instead of senators and deputies of the state duma to the monument to those who died during the liberation from the phasm to the well, and written for freedom. and the independence of the peoples of europe is carried by our diplomats. three-time cheers will still shout the toast of the liberators and on february 23 they will raise it during a break between sessions

of the osce parliamentary assembly, where many of our delegations were not expected. do not let austria failed to have a legal contract, the introduction of the organization's headquarters. well, the visas issued are such that they do not come. transit through the eu is prohibited . the country must be left at midnight on friday. they do not let visas do not give wreaths. you can't put up. when you flew, you understood that it would be so, that there would be a semblance of dialogue, but no dialogue, that is, we understood perfectly well together the system created was flying. so that we can be heard on this platform , so as not to let our opponents say that we have nothing to cover up in response to their accusation and we cowardly put our tail between our legs and did not come 20 countries called for not letting russian representatives into the winter session. as it did last year, poland is great britain, but our deputies are at the table in full force and the representatives of latvia have covered their chair with the ukrainian flag hysterics. now everyone knows that fighting is obscene in russian. he knows how to cleanly

accentless desplays. it's a shame it's a shame that this delegation is here, especially given the fact that this delegation is made up of people on sanctions lists, a russian warship. come on, we will not tolerate direct insults against russia at the address of our president. we will not allow the enemies of russia to speak out. it is in this style in this assembly, so all those who want to insult russia can leave this hall along with their ukrainian flags. this is a real collective insanity on the basis of russophobia of hatred for russia and this pseudo-solidarity with ukraine when they wrap themselves in ukrainian flags and even , sorry, line the colors of the ukrainian flag in urinals, but uh, this is a task with

which our delegation is unconditional. uh, we managed to get the position of russia to the assembly, whether they want to listen or not. this is the second question to speak obscenely while the microphone is on, defiantly leave the hall while the camera is working, the method is not a new working software all world channels will show exactly this one, well, on the sidelines, where there is no recording today, they spoke in a different language and in a different tone. the osce has remained, perhaps the only international platform where russia is ready to come and where , according to our deputies, many interlocutors are even ready to listen to it. today they admitted that they perfectly understand that it is impossible to solve security problems in europe without the largest european country. we take it easy, we are a great power. we can digest this and calmly continue the discussion, which happened, uh, therefore, we will defend our position, russia is completely right in that it is fighting

for its strategic security, but we were ready for a fight and we are confident that we will withstand it and try to influence the general mood in the two-day program of the winter sessions at least a little. vienna is not only ukraine but not all participants, judging by the mood, it will be possible to focus on something else. but tomorrow they will discuss belarus present. belarusian-type deputies in vienna also had a lot of questions issued by the russian delegation of an austrian visa, one thing and very many it has become, the irritating factor will be lion's exception will be known in the summer preparation for the summer session. it's already started in vancouver. the krymsky bridge was fully opened for vehicular traffic today , the repair was completed by pairing the schedule, despite large-scale damage and difficult weather conditions after the terrorist attack organized by the ukrainian special services last fall. it was necessary

to replace eight superstructures, lay two layers of asphalt and install masts. illumination of the renewed crossing through the kerch strait was seen our correspondent yan shcherbataya snow-white arches of the new asphalt a month ahead of schedule the builders completed the restoration of the crimean bridge the branch of the sweat pipeline from the peninsula to the kuban launched cars today drove along all four lanes the builders replaced all elements on the damaged sections of the crimean bridge new fencing, lighting fixtures and 250 m of the roadway to understand where the same section is now possible only by the color of the asphalt on those that have been restored and it is a darker repair, which usually takes the year was completed in just four and a half months, the bridge was not closed in principle. although this would have made it easier for the builder, the car traffic was launched a few hours after the october 8th terrorist attack, the unprecedented speed did not affect the quality, unique

technologies were used by more than 500 people, 51 technicians were involved, despite the fact that the weather did not always allow working 55 days a day. the time until. we worked there were storms. the builders coped with their task , specialists from all over the country worked around the clock. first, the spans were cut into small sections and taken out on floating cranes, and then, using the sliding method, 300-ton structures were lowered onto supports; the spans were restored in turn, first on the left branch, which leads from the krasnodar territory to the crimea, then to a less affected one, the builders replaced eight such spans in total . in total, this is 500 m of new roadway. the bridge was restoring the whole of russia, a huge amount of resources were expended. this is a common merit, the well-coordinated work of bridgemen and e from rostov-on-don and e, they worked from moscow designers. uh, st. petersburg supply of metal structures to eveli 3 factories is always

damaged. now they are visible only on the railway part of the crimean bridge. here is the very blackened section , active restoration work is underway here, as we see the builders have already begun to dismantle one of the spans, but completely. it is planned to complete all these works here by the summer of this year . the rules for entering the overpass have not changed . i'm on shcherba andrey terentyev to lead the crimean bridge. and let's return to the celebration of defender of the fatherland day today, solemn events, rallies, exhibition concerts and much more were held all over russia these are children's congratulations on the day of defenders of the fatherland, it is important that there are children like you who support us, all the people who

serve here are very grateful to you. thank you very much in the area for holding such letters, drawings of the national guard are called a talisman, but today the fighters themselves congratulate other defenders of the fatherland a lot. this is all for the former private peter , careful during the war years. he served as a signalman. came almost to berlin in the summer the veteran will turn 97 support the heroes of the fatherland and in yekaterinburg thanks to our defenders from veterans of the great patriotic war to the fighters who are now in the special military operation zone, traditionally in russia, this holiday was associated with courage and strength and with men fulfilling their duty protection state interests. today,

more than ever, this holiday is relevant, some shots are already from kemerovo, its residents support the soldiers with warm words and write letters to them. maria voloshchenko, teacher of several of her graduates. now she is the leader, she understands that letters are unlikely to fall into their hands personally, but she wants to raise morale and live for those whom she does not know, she has already written words of gratitude. now i will write more. further. tomorrow the same concerts and rallies will be held in novokuznetsk and bilovo, there will be no support from the inhabitants of the country only moral during the celebration , a charity marathon will be held to raise funds in support of the soldiers who are in the zone of their own and the civilian population of donbass on the holiday you were congratulated on the defender of the fatherland day in belgorod on february 23 by the families. whose relatives are now just participating in a special military operation, not only the military, they are also those who work in the rear at the festival of courage in novosibirsk schoolchildren. meet the hero.