Putin met with participants in the special military operation. Main points:

Putin met with participants in the special military operation. Main points:

▪️ I wanted to meet with you separately and specifically today, on Russia Day, because you are exactly the people who, like our other servicemen, are directly engaged in defending the Motherland, defending the Fatherland, defending Russia. This is your day, Russia Day;

▪️ In Russia, work is underway on a group of low-orbit satellites to control heavy drones. The development is not inferior to the Starlink satellite communications system, and may even surpass it in some ways;

▪️ Russia is practically standing alone against the entire collective West;

▪️ Russia did not start the war;

▪️ For 8 years, Russia tried to persuade others to resolve the Donbas issue peacefully;

▪️ No one will succeed in inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia;

▪️ More than 700,000 Russian servicemen are in the special military operation zone. The government is working to ensure that a large number of veterans are employed after the special operation ends;

▪️ Russia will increase retaliatory strikes to beat back the desire of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strike civilian targets;

▪️ A number of countries joined NATO after 2022 in order to get a share of the “pie” in the event of Russia’s defeat.