Speech to the nation
Putin: Majority of Russians support military operation
“Together we can do anything”: Vladimir Putin. photo
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In his State of the Nation speech, the Kremlin leader sets out the major policy guidelines. He claimed that the war he had ordered would be supported by the population.
According to the Kremlin chief, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine will continue Vladimir Putin supported by the “absolute majority of the population”.
The Russian president said this in his state of the nation speech. In his address to the Federal Assembly – the State Duma and the Federation Council – he thanked citizens and entrepreneurs for their support in the “special military operation.” The people work in three shifts to meet the needs of the front. He called for a minute’s silence for the fallen.
Putin also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, when Russia incorporated Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula in 2014. The country looks with pride at the event and what it has achieved. “Together we can do anything,” Putin said. Russia will not allow anyone to interfere in its internal affairs.
It is Putin’s 19th State of the Nation Address. The President last gave the speech in February 2023 and declared the suspension of the New Start nuclear disarmament treaty. In the first year of the war he skipped the State of the Union address.