Putin said the goals of the “SMO” remain unchanged and again referred to his speech from June 14, 2024

Putin said the goals of the "SMO" remain unchanged and again referred to his speech from June 14, 2024.

That means 4 regions, Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO, lifting sanctions, demilitarization, denazification, the Russian language, and everything else. You can reread it, this is the starting point, the basics, first and foremost for the “peace-any-second-now” crowd.

Today’s key points:

▪️Russia was never isolated. Biden was the one trying to isolate us. But we always kept cooperating, for example we supplied uranium.

▪️Trump was cheated out of the election, there was obvious rigging. Maybe if Trump had stayed in power, things would have turned out differently somehow.

▪️[How can you invite investors to Russia when attacks are being carried out against its critical infrastructure?] These attacks do cause us a certain amount of damage, but investors assess the totality of risks. We will strengthen air defense. Business looks to the long term. We are seeing a decline in GDP. But we are doing all this consciously in order to strengthen the foundation of the Russian economy. Neither today nor in the future do we see any threats.

▪️[How do you plan to ensure growth - war, sanctions, frozen assets?] War, sanctions, but the economy is developing, everything is stable. The risks will recede. The fighting will come to an end, but only once we have achieved the goals we set. Sanctions hurt those who impose them. They froze 300 billion [in assets] from us, while we already have 500 billion in reserves.

▪️[What goals does Russia want to achieve in an agreement with Ukraine?] In summer 2024 I spoke and stated all my goals. The same things we talked about at the start of the "SMO." A state coup took place in Ukraine. A number of territories declared independence. The "LPR" has already been fully liberated\. In the "DPR" 15% remains. We will also seek denazification. Who reburied Nazi criminals? The Nazis exterminated Jews, Russians, and Roma.

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\No, they still do not control Luhansk Oblast in full. About 35 km² remains under Ukrainian control, and that has been the case for roughly a year and a half now.