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Russian President Vladimir Putin considered, on Wednesday, in a brief speech during a major national festival at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, that Russia is currently fighting in Ukraine for its “historic lands.”
“Today, the military leadership told me that battles are taking place within our historical lands for the sake of our people,” Putin said on a stage in front of a crowd of tens of thousands of Russians.
Appearing for only a few minutes, the president praised the Russian military deployed in Ukraine who are fighting heroically, courageously and valiantly, and said, “We are proud of them.”
He added that all those who support the Russian army “are themselves defending the homeland. They are medical workers and employees in the defense and transportation sectors… You are all the ones who came today to support our fighters.”
The authorities organized this national festival in support of the attack in Ukraine.
In a temperature of minus 15 degrees below zero, hundreds of attendees waved Russian flags, while patriotic songs and words of soldiers fighting on the Ukrainian front were broadcast on the podium.
The festival, organized under the slogan “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 the Russian-Ukrainian war.
