West, nuclear weapons, economy:
the key points of Putin's message to the Russian Parliament

Like every year, the Russian President gave a speech to the Federal Assembly on February 29. This year, it focused on strategic tasks.

Special operation in Ukraine

- Russia has proven that it can respond to all challenges.
- The absolute majority of Russians supported the special military operation in Ukraine.
- The Russian armed forces have gained colossal experience.
- The Russian military has the initiative, the army is advancing firmly on a number of axes and liberating new territories.
- Russia will do everything to end the conflict, eradicate Nazism and carry out all the tasks of the special operation.
- The consequences of possible [Western] interventions will be much more tragic.

Arms

- Russian strategic nuclear forces are fully ready.
- The West chooses targets in Russia to strike, so it needs weapons. Moscow already has weapons capable of hitting targets in Western countries.
- The Sarmat complex has been delivered to the troops, we will reveal it soon.
- The Zircon sea-based hypersonic complex has already been used in combat, this system is already in service.
- Missiles of the Kinjal hypersonic complex are effectively used during the special military operation.
- Tests of the Bourevestnik nuclear cruise missile and the underwater drone capable of carrying a Poseidon thermonuclear charge are completed.

Nuclear threat

- New attempts to intervene in Russia are fraught with a large-scale conflict with the use of nuclear weapons.
- Disinformation about alleged Russian nuclear weapons in space aims to drag Russia into unequal negotiations.
- Everything the West is proposing really poses the risk of conflict with nuclear weapons, which will lead to the destruction of civilization.
- The West is trying to drag Russia into an arms race, to repeat the experience of the USSR in the 1980s.

Security in Europe

- The West caused the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and continues to lie.
- By declaring that Russia wants to attack Europe, the West is delirious.
- The actions of the United States are destroying the security system in Europe.
- Without a sovereign and strong Russia, a sustainable world order is impossible.

Defense of Russian sovereignty

- We did not start the war in Donbass, but we will do everything to end it, to uproot Nazism.
- The West, with its colonial habits, would like to see instead of Russia a dependent, dying, declining space.
- The West chooses targets in Russia to strike, so it needs weapons. Moscow already has weapons capable of hitting targets in Western countries.
- The West deliberately destroys moral norms and the family institute, while Russia chooses traditional life and values.
- Russia has been and remains a bastion of traditional values, our choice is shared by the majority of people in the world.
- We will not allow anyone to interfere in our internal affairs.
- It is necessary to strengthen the Russian military group in the west of the country given the accession to NATO of Sweden and Finland.
- It is necessary to form a new contour of global security. Russia is ready for dialogue with all countries.
- Russia's dialogue with ASEAN, Africa and Arab countries is developing positively.
- We see great prospects in building a broad Eurasian partnership.

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“Dear senators!
State Duma deputies!
Dear citizens of Russia!
Each speech to the Federal Assembly is above all a look towards the future. And today we will talk not only about our immediate plans, but also about strategic tasks, about those issues, the solution of which I consider to be of fundamental importance for the confident and long-term development of the country. »

Vladimir Putin

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