Ukraine, live coverage Putin in the Duma: "Kiev started the war. We wanted peace, the West betrayed us. Now it is an existential question for Russia"

February 21, 2023 12:05

Putin concludes his speech: “Russia will respond to any challenge”

“There Russia will answer any Challenge. Because we are all one country. We are a great united people. We trust in our strength. The truth is with us. Thank you.” So the Russian President Wladimir Putin He closed his speech to the Federal Assembly after around two hours.

February 21, 2023 12:03

Putin: “Testing nuclear weapons, but we will not use them first”

The Russian President Wladimir Putin invited the Ministry of defense And rosatom to be ready for nuclear weapons tests. “We’ll never use them first, but they will United States we must be ready. Nobody has to do it illusions: The strategic parity must not be broken,” said Putin.

February 21, 2023 11:57 am

Putin: “We suspend the application of the START treaty on nuclear power”

There Russia “requires” the application of beginthe last remaining nuclear arms reduction agreement with the US, as it cannot allow US inspectors to visit Russian nuclear sites during this period Washington it wants to inflict “a strategic defeat” on Moscow. The President said so Vladimir Putin in the speech state of the nation. “We’re putting them out treatedbut we are not retreating from it,” Putin stressed.

February 21, 2023 11:54 am

Minsk: “Ukraine concentrates troops near the border with Belarus”

L’Ukraine concentrated a significant group of troops on the border with Belarus. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus, Colonel Valery Revenkoas he reports ria Novosti. “The armed conflict in Ukraine significantly aggravated the situation on the southern border of the republic Belarus” said the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

February 21, 2023 11:52 am

Blinken: “Putin’s war was a strategic failure”

There War unleashed by the Russian President, Vladimir Putinit was a “Fail strategically“. This was stated by the head of US diplomacy, Anthony Flash, during a press conference in Athens with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias. “A year after President Putin attacked Ukraine, it is clear that his war was a strategic failure in every respect,” Blinken said. “It’s because of the courage People Ukrainianbut also on the strength and unity of allies and partners from around the world who have supported Ukraine,” the foreign minister added Condition AmericanShe arrived in Athens last night Ankara to meet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

February 21, 2023 11:51 am

White House: “Biden’s speech will not be the answer to Putin’s”

In his speech this afternoon in Warsaw Joe Biden will offer “a statement of values” rather than an answer to the discourse about them Wladimir Putin. The White House National Security Advisor said: jake Sullivan: “We don’t look at the speech as some kind of head-to-head race, it’s not an oratorical challenge with anyone”. “The President’s speech will have a wider reach – he added – we chose this moment, not this date, because President Putin spoke today.”

February 21, 2023 11:50 am

Putin: “Russia a friend of Italy during the Covid”

“There Russia she turned out to be a friend and kept her word. The help we’ve given everyone proves it‘Italy and other European countries during the pandemic covid or, as now, that we are providing our assistance in the fields earthquake“. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

February 21, 2023 11:49 am

Putin: “Presidential elections in 2024 within the law”

“The elections a September and the presidential elections in 2024 will be held in accordance with that Law“. He assured it Wladimir Putin in his speech to the Federal Assembly.