Putin weighs military campaign in a speech on Tuesday

Russian President Vladimir Putin will assess the progress of the military campaign in Ukraine and the international situation in a state-of-the-nation speech he will deliver on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today.

“Naturally […] everyone is waiting for an assessment of the current situation, the special military operation, the international situation and the president’s opinion on how we will handle all this and how we will develop [como país]”, the spokesman said in the program “Moscú.Kremlin.Putin”, broadcast on public television Rossía-1.

“Our whole life now revolves around the special military operation, which has affected our whole life in one way or another, life on the continent. And so the president should be expected to pay close attention to it,” said Peskov, referring to the war campaign.

Putin will deliver his first state-of-the-nation speech to the Federal Assembly in nearly two years next week at 09:00 GMT, three days before the first year of Ukraine’s war to begin, for “free from genocide”. the people of Donbass and “denazify” the neighboring country.

The Kremlin did not allow foreign media from countries deemed “enemy” to be accredited for the speech.

Putin’s intervention, which will again be broadcast by all public television stations in the country, will coincide with the date when the Russian president recognized the independence of Donestsk and Lugansk a year ago, a prelude to the start of the war campaign.

In September 2022, Russia illegally annexed these two eastern Ukrainian provinces, along with the southern provinces of Zaporizhia and Jerson, although it does not fully control any of the four areas.

While the Kremlin head claims military intervention was “necessary to liberate Donbass,” the propaganda has focused on the idea that Russia is the victim of a hybrid war by NATO allies. who the country.

After a year of military campaign in Ukraine, Putin failed to achieve his goal of completely conquering Donbass, even though he managed to maintain the land corridor connecting eastern Ukraine to the annexed Crimean peninsula, via the coast of the Sea from Azov.