“We are going to make our country great and independent.” Vladimir Putin delivered a martial speech on the occasion of the transition to the new year in Russia and in the midst of the war in Ukraine.
Standing next to soldiers who fought in Ukraine and those he had just decorated at an army headquarters in southern Russia, the Russian president saluted these “heroes” who “fight for their homeland.”
“Together we will overcome all obstacles (…) and we will win,” said the president of the Russian Federation.
2022, a “year of turning points”
Vladimir Putin, who spoke of a “year of turning points”, also assured that “moral and historical correctness” is “on the side” of his country.
“That is what we are fighting for today, to protect our people in our own historical territories, in the new constituent entities of Russia,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
