Putin:
- We Are in Difficult Time, Prior to Historical Events
- We Willl Decide Tasks of Special Military Operation Step by Step
- We Did Everything Possible to Resolve Donbas Problem Peacefully
- But West Prepared Different Scenario
- Kyiv Held Talks With West About Weapons Supplies Before Military Operation
- West Cynically Cheated Its People
- We Defend Our Interest and Position That There Should Not Be Divide Between Civilised Countries and the Rest
- Only U.S. Has Large Number of Military Bases Globally
- U.S. Unilaterally Exited Treaties
- We Saw Threats Were Increasing, Bloody Operation in Donbas Had Been Prepared
- Russia Wanted Peace in Ukraine but West Had Other Ideas
- Western Countries Have Been Training Ukrainian Military Officers and Supplying Them With Weapons
- They Started the War
- We Did Everything to Stop It
- Sevastopol in Crimea Was Next Target
- Limitless Power Is West’s Goal
- West Has Let Genie From the Bottle
- Russia Is Willing to Have a Dialogue With the West on Security Issues
- Concepts Such As Honor, Trust and Decency Are Not Suitable for the West, Which Is Used to Spurning the Whole World
- Trillions of Dollars Are at Stake for West
- West Is Diverting People’s Attention From Corruption Scandals, Other Problems
- The West Will Never Wash Away the Shame of What It Did In Yugoslavia, Libya and Elsewhere
- West Started Making Ukraine ‘Anti-Russia’ Long Ago
- Ukraine’s Military Divisions Use Nazi Attributes
- No One in the West Notices It
- Kiev Tried to Acquire Nuclear Weapons
- Ukraine Is Enslaved by the West and They Are Preparing for a Big War
- “Anti-Russia” Project Means to Channel Aggression to the East, to Fire Up War In Europe
- West Started Conflict, Seeking ‘Unlimited Power’
- Responsibility for Escalation in Ukraine Lies With Western Elites
- All Principled Security Proposals Put Forward by Russia Have Been Rejected Outright
- the West Refuses to Provide Security Guarantees to Russia
- West Seeks to Change Local Conflict Into Global One
- Ukrainian Government Plans to Attack Donbass and Crimea in 2022
- The Existence of Our Country Is at Stake
- to Push Threat Farther if Longer-Range Arms Supplied
- It’s Impossible to Defeat Our Country On Battlefield
- The West’s Goal Is to Take Away Historical Territories From Russia, “These Territories Are Called Ukraine Today”
- The West Has Been “Returning the Tiger to the Mountain” in Recent Decades, Throwing the Entire Region Into Chaos
- Anglican Church Plans to Consider Idea of Gender-Neutral God, They Don’t Know What They Are Doing
- West Has Spent More Than $150 Billion to Aid Ukraine
- West Will Try to Divide Our Society, Make Bets on Traitors
- We Will Never Be Like Western Elites, Engaged in Witch Hunt
- Majority of Our People Supported Our Actions in Defending Donbas
- I Want to Thank Russian People for Resolution and Courage
- Russia Is Not at War With the Ukrainian People, but They Have Become Hostages to Kiev and Western Regimes
- The Ukrainian Regime Is Not Serving Its Own Interests, but the Interests of a Third Country
- The West Wants to End Russia Forever and Makes No Secret of It
- The West Is Destroying Its Own Values, Calling On Priests to Bless Same-Sex Marriage
- New Ukrainian Territories Made Their Choice to Be With Russia Despite Threats of Nazis
- The West Has Turned Ukraine Into Consumables And Its People Into Victims
- Those Who Betray The Motherland Will Be Held Accountable According To Law
- We Will Increase Social Support Programmes for “New Territories”
- We Will Do Everything for the Peace to Return to Our Land
- Our Fighters Are Fighting for the Future, for Restoration of Historical Justice
- Thanks To The War Correspondents Working In The Special Military Operations Zone
- We All Understand How Hard It Is For The Relatives Of The Fallen Soldiers
- Our Duty Is to Support Families Which Lost Loved Ones
- I Propose to Set Up Special State Fund to Support Veterans and Fallen Soldiers
- Our Next Steps To Strengthen Army And Navy Should Take Into Account Experience Of Special Military Operation
- We Have To Reach High Level For All The Military Components
- West Is Fighting Us on Economic Front, It Won’t Succeed
- West Provoked Price Increases, Loss of Jobs
- West Has Stolen Our Gold and Forex Reserves
- Their Aim Is to Make Our People Suffer
- Russian Economy Has Proven Far More Strong Than They Thought in West
- Russian Economy Shrank by 2.1% in 2022
- Russian Business Has Rebuilt Logistics
- We Will Continue Working With Our Partners on New Settlement Systems
- Share of Ruble in Intl Transactions Doubled to One Third
- It’s Not Us Who Cut Settlements in Dollars, They Do It With Their Own Hands
- We Have Everything to Provide Security and Sustainable Development of Our Country
- We Will Be Able to Export 55-60 mln T Of Grain
- I Am Sure We Have Possibility for Breakthrough in Other Sectors
- Unemployment Is at Historic Low
- We Have New Niches After Withdrawal of Western Companies
- Changes of Structure of Our Economy Is Vital
- Our Task Is to Lead Our Economy to New Frontiers
- We Will Expand Foreign Ties, New Logistic Corridors
- We Will Develop Ports of Black, Azov Seas
- We Expect Cooperation to Enhance With India, Iran, Pakistan
- Russian Banks Are Working Stably, Have Shown Resilience
- Inflation Will Be Close to Target of 4% in Q2
- We Have Conditions for Decrease of Long-Term Interest Rates
- Private Business Has Proved It Can Adapt to New Environment Despite External Pressure
- I Ask Government to Speed Up De-Offshorisation Of Economy
- Russian Economy Was Oriented to the West After Fall of Soviet Union
- More Complex Sectors of Economy Were Poorly Developed, We Needed Years to Stop This Trend
- Funds Were Spent on Yachts, Elite Property in West
- Latest Events Showed That Notion of Safe Haven in West Proved to Be False
- No One From Ordinary People in Russia Showed Pity for Those Who Lost Their Yachts, Palaces Abroad
- Situation When Russian Big Business Depends on West Is Dangerous, It Can’t Continue Like This
- It’s Time to Understand That Big Russian Businessmen Will Remain Second Rate in West, No Titles Will Help
- The Future Can Only Be in Russia
- I Appeal to Big Business, It’s Useless to Cling to Past, to Win Something In Courts
- Invest in Russia
- You Will Win Gratitude of People for Generations
- Russia Is an Open Country, but It’s Our Civilisation
- We Will Count On Our Potential, Our Values
- Presidential Elections in 2024 Will Be Held in Line With Law
- Russia Has the Right to Be Strong
- I Propose an Extra Increase in Minimum Wage From Next Year, It Will Reach 19,242 Roubles
- We Know That West Is Behind Ukraine’s Attempts to Hit Our Bases
- We Are Not Allowed to Conduct Inspections As Part of Arms Treaties
- West Declares Its Aim to Inflict Strategic Defeat on Russia
- NATO Seeks to Be Part of Nuclear Arms Control Treaty, We Agree
- Arms Treaty With U.S. Was First Reached in Other Realities
- Western Calls On Russia to Allow Inspections As Part of Arms Treaties Are Absurd
- West Had Aim to Break Architecture of International Relations Post World War Two
- Russia Suspends Participations in Strategic Arms Treaty
- We Do Not Withdraw From This, but Suspend Participation
- If U.S. Will Conduct Nuclear Tests, We Will Do the Same
- We Know That Some Nuclear Weapons Are Nearing Their Expiration Date in U.S.
- Russia Will Respond to Any Challenge, Truth Is Behind US
- We Are Confident in Our Strength