Английская Википедия:2023 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly

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On Шаблон:Dts, almost a year after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin delivered an address to the Federal Assembly, at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, Russia.Шаблон:R This was the first Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly since the start of the invasion; Putin did not deliver such an address in 2022.Шаблон:RШаблон:Efn

Overview

During the address, Putin asserted that the West had started the war, and that Russia had been using force to end it.Шаблон:R He stated that the Ukrainian people were hostages of the Ukrainian government.Шаблон:R Putin also said that the West had planned to turn a local conflict into a global one, and that the conflict represented an existential threat to Russia.Шаблон:R He added that it was impossible to defeat Russia, and vowed to continue fighting in Ukraine.Шаблон:R He also praised the people of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia for the choice they made during the previous year's annexation referendums.Шаблон:R Near the end of his speech, Putin announced that Russia would be suspending its participation in the nuclear disarmament treaty New START.Шаблон:R

Putin's address was simultaneously broadcast on television and in schools and government buildings, as well as displayed on large screens in public places in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine.Шаблон:R It was delivered a day after U.S. president Joe Biden had made a surprise visit to Kyiv, his first to Ukraine since the start of the invasion.Шаблон:RШаблон:Efn

On the same day but after Putin's address, CNN reported that U.S. officials had stated that a test of the Sarmat, a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile, appeared to have failed shortly before the address.Шаблон:R (It was initially reported that the missile test had apparently occurred while Biden was in Ukraine, but a U.S. official later stated that the test had occurred on Шаблон:Dts, three days before Putin's speech.Шаблон:R) Prior to the test, Russia had informed the U.S. of the intended missile launch, as required by New START.Шаблон:RШаблон:Efn U.S. officials stated that such a test was considered routine, and not an escalation of the conflict.Шаблон:R Putin did not mention the missile test during his speech.Шаблон:R

Biden also delivered a speech in Warsaw, Poland, hours after Putin had made his presidential address.Шаблон:R The following day, Putin made a brief appearance at a rally at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow commemorating Defender of the Fatherland Day.Шаблон:R

See also

• Address concerning the events in Ukraine, delivered by Putin one year previously, to the day

External links

• Transcript on en.kremlin.ru