The Russian president made this declaration during a great patriotic concert at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, this Wednesday, February 22.
” Today I was told by the (military) hierarchy that fighting is going on within our historic lands for our people “, threw Vladimir Poutine, on stage, in front of tens of thousands of his compatriots. During his appearance, which lasted only a few minutes, the Russian Head of State also paid tribute to the Russian soldiers deployed in Ukraine who ” fight with heroism, courage and valor: we are proud of them “.
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He claimed that anyone who supported the Russian military was ” they too are defenders of the fatherland, in a way “. It’s about ” medical workers, defense sector workers, transport workers (…) All of you, who have come today to support our fighters “.
Concerts to the glory of the defenders of the fatherland
The patriotic concert in which Vladimir Putin briefly took part was organized by the authorities in support of the offensive in Ukraine. By -15°C, the public waved hundreds of Russian flags there, while on the stages followed one another patriotic songs and speeches of Russians fighting on the Ukrainian front.
This concert called “Glory to the Defenders of the Fatherland” comes on the eve of the day of the same name and two days before the first anniversary of Russia’s offensive against its neighbor. Children from the Ukrainian Donbass, in particular from the martyr city of Mariupol, in the south-east of the country, took the stage, hugging a Russian soldier who exclaimed in front of the crowd: “ We win ! “.
Officials of the Russian occupation authorities from Ukrainian regions were also inside the stadium, giving interviews to Russian state media. ” The West is complicit in war crimes Ukrainians, thus released Denis Pushilin, the pro-Russian separatist leader of a ” Republic ” in the province of Donetsk whose Moscow claims the annexation, before denouncing once again ” Nazi ideology of Ukrainian power.
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(With AFP)