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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a lengthy speech on Thursday explaining his justification for invading Ukraine, claiming Russian federation was left with "no other choice" to ensure its national security later on decades of deception by the "US instrument" known as NATO.

Regardless of i's sentiments about Putin or his actions, this is history being fabricated in existent fourth dimension.

Full transcript:

Respected citizens of Russia! Honey friends!

Today, I consider it necessary today to speak once again nigh the tragic events in Donbas and the fundamental aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.

I will begin with what I said in my address on Feb 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and near the central threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from twelvemonth to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure e'er closer to the Russian edge.

It is a fact that over the past xxx years nosotros have been patiently trying to come to an understanding with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance connected to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its armed services machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very edge.

Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the caption for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?

The answer is simple. Everything is clear and obvious. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Matrimony grew weaker and subsequently broke autonomously. That experience should serve as a good lesson for united states, because information technology has shown us that the paralysis of power and volition is the offset pace towards complete degradation and oblivion. We lost confidence for only ane moment, merely it was plenty to disrupt the balance of forces in the globe.

As a upshot, the one-time treaties and agreements are no longer effective. Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced every bit archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything information technology regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the price, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.

What I am proverb now does not concerns just Russia, and Russian federation is non the simply country that is worried about this. This has to practise with the entire system of international relations, and sometimes even US allies. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of international police that adult by that fourth dimension – and the near important of them, the central norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its event – came in the mode of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War.

Of course, practise, international relations and the rules regulating them had to accept into account the changes that took place in the globe and in the rest of forces. Yet, this should have been done professionally, smoothly, patiently, and with due regard and respect for the interests of all states and ane'south ain responsibility. Instead, we saw a country of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modernistic absolutism, coupled with the low cultural standards and arrogance of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves. The situation took a different turn.

At that place are many examples of this. First a bloody military functioning was waged confronting Belgrade, without the Un Security Council's sanction simply with combat aircraft and missiles used in the centre of Europe. The bombing of peaceful cities and vital infrastructure went on for several weeks. I accept to recall these facts, because some Western colleagues prefer to forget them, and when we mentioned the event, they prefer to avoid speaking nigh international law, instead emphasising the circumstances which they interpret as they think necessary.

And then came the turn of Republic of iraq, Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya and Syrian arab republic. The illegal use of military power confronting Libya and the baloney of all the United nations Security Council decisions on Libya ruined the state, created a huge seat of international terrorism, and pushed the country towards a humanitarian ending, into the vortex of a civil war, which has continued there for years. The tragedy, which was created for hundreds of thousands and even millions of people not only in Libya but in the whole region, has led to a large-scale exodus from the Middle East and Northward Africa to Europe.

A similar fate was too prepared for Syria. The combat operations conducted past the Western coalition in that state without the Syrian government'due south approving or UN Security Council'due south sanction can only be divers every bit assailment and intervention.

Just the instance that stands autonomously from the above events is, of form, the invasion of Iraq without any legal grounds. They used the pretext of allegedly reliable information available in the United states about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. To prove that allegation, the The states Secretarial assistant of State held up a vial with white ability, publicly, for the whole world to see, assuring the international customs that information technology was a chemic warfare agent created in Iraq. It later turned out that all of that was a fake and a sham, and that Iraq did non have any chemical weapons. Incredible and shocking just true. We witnessed lies fabricated at the highest land level and voiced from the high UN rostrum. Every bit a result nosotros see a tremendous loss in human life, impairment, devastation, and a jumbo upsurge of terrorism.

Overall, it appears that nearly everywhere, in many regions of the globe where the The states brought its law and gild, this created bloody, not-healing wounds and the expletive of international terrorism and extremism. I have only mentioned the most glaring simply far from only examples of disregard for international law.

This array includes promises non to expand NATO eastwards fifty-fifty by an inch. To reiterate: they have deceived us, or, to put it simply, they have played us. Sure, one often hears that politics is a muddied business. It could be, but it shouldn't be as dirty as it is now, not to such an extent. This type of con-artist behaviour is contrary not only to the principles of international relations only also and in a higher place all to the mostly accepted norms of morality and ethics. Where is justice and truth hither? Just lies and hypocrisy all around.

Incidentally, Usa politicians, political scientists and journalists write and say that a veritable "empire of lies" has been created inside the United states in recent years. It is hard to disagree with this – it is really and then. But one should not be modest about it: the United States is nonetheless a great country and a organization-forming ability. All its satellites non only humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot information technology at the slightest pretext but also imitate its behaviour and enthusiastically take the rules it is offering them. Therefore, one can say with adept reason and confidence that the whole so-called Western bloc formed by the Us in its ain prototype and likeness is, in its entirety, the very same "empire of lies."

Equally for our country, after the disintegration of the USSR, given the entire unprecedented openness of the new, mod Russian federation, its readiness to work honestly with the United States and other Western partners, and its practically unilateral disarmament, they immediately tried to put the final squeeze on us, finish us off, and utterly destroy us. This is how it was in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called commonage West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia. What victims, what losses nosotros had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before nosotros broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus! We think this and will never forget.

Properly speaking, the attempts to use u.s.a. in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and strength on the states their false values that would erode the states, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to deposition and degeneration, because they are contrary to man nature. This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in doing this, nor will they succeed now.

Despite all that, in December 2021, nosotros made yet another attempt to reach agreement with the United states and its allies on the principles of European security and NATO's non-expansion. Our efforts were in vain. The U.s.a. has non changed its position. Information technology does non believe it necessary to concur with Russia on a matter that is critical for us. The Us is pursuing its ain objectives, while neglecting our interests.

Of grade, this situation begs a question: what next, what are we to look? If history is any guide, nosotros know that in 1940 and early 1941 the Soviet Union went to slap-up lengths to prevent war or at least delay its outbreak. To this end, the USSR sought non to provoke the potential attacker until the very end past refraining or postponing the most urgent and obvious preparations it had to make to defend itself from an imminent attack. When information technology finally acted, it was as well late.

Equally a event, the country was not prepared to counter the invasion by Nazi Federal republic of germany, which attacked our Motherland on June 22, 1941, without declaring war. The country stopped the enemy and went on to defeat it, only this came at a tremendous cost. The attempt to appease the assaulter ahead of the Great Patriotic State of war proved to be a mistake which came at a high cost for our people. In the beginning months later the hostilities broke out, we lost vast territories of strategic importance, as well equally millions of lives. We will not make this fault the second time. Nosotros have no right to exercise and then.

Those who aspire to global dominance have publicly designated Russia as their enemy. They did then with impunity. Make no fault, they had no reason to act this fashion. It is true that they have considerable financial, scientific, technological, and military capabilities. Nosotros are aware of this and have an objective view of the economic threats we take been hearing, just as our ability to counter this brash and never-ending blackmail. Let me reiterate that nosotros accept no illusions in this regard and are extremely realistic in our assessments.

As for war machine affairs, even afterward the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today'due south Russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states. Moreover, it has a certain advantage in several cut-edge weapons. In this context, there should exist no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor will face up defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.

At the same time, engineering science, including in the defence sector, is irresolute rapidly. One 24-hour interval at that place is one leader, and tomorrow another, but a military presence in territories bordering on Russia, if we permit information technology to go ahead, will stay for decades to come or possibly forever, creating an ever mounting and totally unacceptable threat for Russia.

Even now, with NATO'southward eastward expansion the state of affairs for Russia has been becoming worse and more than dangerous past the year. Moreover, these by days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step upward efforts to bring the alliance's infrastructure closer to Russia's borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would exist an admittedly irresponsible matter to practice for us.

Any farther expansion of the North Atlantic alliance's infrastructure or the ongoing efforts to proceeds a armed services foothold of the Ukrainian territory are unacceptable for usa. Of class, the question is not about NATO itself. It merely serves as a tool of US strange policy. The problem is that in territories next to Russian federation, which I have to note is our historical state, a hostile "anti-Russia" is taking shape. Fully controlled from the outside, it is doing everything to concenter NATO military machine and obtain cutting-border weapons.

For the United States and its allies, it is a policy of containing Russia, with obvious geopolitical dividends. For our land, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical hereafter as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. Information technology is not simply a very existent threat to our interests simply to the very existence of our country and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we accept spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.

This brings me to the state of affairs in Donbas. We tin can run into that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 have seized power, are keeping it with the help of ornamental election procedures and have abandoned the path of a peaceful disharmonize settlement. For 8 years, for eight endless years we take been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political ways. Everything was in vain.

Equally I said in my previous address, you cannot look without compassion at what is happening there. It became impossible to tolerate it. We had to stop that barbarism, that genocide of the millions of people who live at that place and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. It is their aspirations, the feelings and pain of these people that were the main motivating force behind our decision to recognize the independence of the Donbas people's republics.

I would similar to additionally emphasize the following. Focused on their ain goals, the leading NATO countries are supporting the far-right nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, those who will never forgive the people of Crimea and Sevastopol for freely making a choice to reunite with Russia.

They will undoubtedly try to bring war to Crimea just as they have done in Donbas, to kill innocent people just as members of the punitive units of Ukrainian nationalists and Hitler's accomplices did during the Not bad Patriotic State of war. They have also openly laid claim to several other Russian regions.

If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. Information technology is only a matter of fourth dimension. They are getting set up and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far equally aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will non let this happen.

I have already said that Russia accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. We take been treating all new post-Soviet states with respect and will go along to act this mode. Nosotros respect and will respect their sovereignty, every bit proven by the assistance nosotros provided to Kazakhstan when it faced tragic events and a challenge in terms of its statehood and integrity. However, Russian federation cannot feel rubber, develop, and be while facing a permanent threat from the territory of today'due south Ukraine.

Permit me remind you that in 2000–2005 nosotros used our military to push back against terrorists in the Caucasus and stood upwardly for the integrity of our state. We preserved Russia. In 2014, we supported the people of Crimea and Sevastopol. In 2015, we used our Armed Forces to create a reliable shield that prevented terrorists from Syrian arab republic from penetrating Russian federation. This was a thing of defending ourselves. We had no other choice.

The aforementioned is happening today. They did non get out u.s.a. whatever other choice for defending Russia and our people, other than the ane nosotros are forced to use today. In these circumstances, nosotros have to have assuming and firsthand action. The people's republics of Donbas have asked Russia for help.

In this context, in accordance with Article 51 (Affiliate VII) of the UN Charter, with permission of Russian federation'southward Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual help with the Donetsk People's Commonwealth and the Lugansk People'southward Democracy, ratified by the Federal Assembly on Feb 22, I made a determination to carry out a special armed forces operation.

The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years at present, accept been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, nosotros will seek to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, equally well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous encarmine crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russia.

It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone past force. At the same time, we have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the Westward that there is no need any more to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of World War 2, as signed past the totalitarian Soviet authorities. How tin we reply to that?

The outcomes of World War 2 and the sacrifices our people had to make to defeat Nazism are sacred. This does not contradict the high values of human rights and freedoms in the reality that emerged over the post-war decades. This does not hateful that nations cannot enjoy the right to self-determination, which is enshrined in Article ane of the UN Charter.

Allow me remind you that the people living in territories which are part of today's Ukraine were not asked how they want to build their lives when the USSR was created or after World War Ii. Freedom guides our policy, the freedom to choose independently our future and the future of our children. We believe that all the peoples living in today'south Ukraine, anyone who want to do this, must be able to bask this correct to make a gratis choice.

In this context I would like to address the citizens of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia was obliged to protect the people of Crimea and Sevastopol from those who you lot yourself call "nats." The people of Crimea and Sevastopol made their selection in favour of being with their historical homeland, Russian federation, and we supported their selection. Equally I said, we could not act otherwise.

The current events have nothing to practise with a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending Russia from those who take taken Ukraine hostage and are trying to utilize it against our country and our people.

I reiterate: we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for united states and from a worse peril than what is happening now. I am asking you, however hard this may be, to empathize this and to work together with usa so as to turn this tragic page as soon every bit possible and to move forwards together, without allowing anyone to interfere in our diplomacy and our relations just developing them independently, so as to create favourable weather condition for overcoming all these problems and to strengthen us from within as a single whole, despite the existence of land borders. I believe in this, in our common future.

I would as well like to accost the military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Comrade officers,

Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to let today's neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine. You swore the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and not to the junta, the people'due south antagonist which is plundering Ukraine and humiliating the Ukrainian people.

I urge y'all to reject to bear out their criminal orders. I urge y'all to immediately lay down arms and go home. I will explain what this means: the military personnel of the Ukrainian army who practice this will exist able to freely exit the zone of hostilities and return to their families.

I desire to emphasize again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.

I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the exterior. No thing who tries to stand in our fashion or all the more so create threats for our land and our people, they must know that Russia will answer immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are fix. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will exist heard.

Citizens of Russia,

The culture and values, feel and traditions of our ancestors invariably provided a powerful underpinning for the wellbeing and the very existence of unabridged states and nations, their success and viability. Of course, this direct depends on the power to apace suit to constant change, maintain social cohesion, and readiness to consolidate and summon all the available forces in order to move forrard.

Nosotros always need to exist stiff, but this strength can take on different forms. The "empire of lies," which I mentioned in the beginning of my speech, proceeds in its policy primarily from rough, direct force. This is when our proverb on being "all brawn and no brains" applies.

We all know that having justice and truth on our side is what makes us truly strong. If this is the example, information technology would exist difficult to disagree with the fact that it is our strength and our readiness to fight that are the boulder of independence and sovereignty and provide the necessary foundation for building a reliable future for your home, your family, and your Motherland.

Dearest compatriots,

I am certain that devoted soldiers and officers of Russia'south Armed Forces will perform their duty with professionalism and courage. I have no doubt that the government institutions at all levels and specialists volition work effectively to guarantee the stability of our economy, financial system and social wellbeing, and the same applies to corporate executives and the entire business organisation customs. I promise that all parliamentary parties and civil society take a consolidated, patriotic position.

At the stop of the solar day, the hereafter of Russian federation is in the hands of its multi-ethnic people, as has always been the instance in our history. This ways that the decisions that I made will exist executed, that we volition reach the goals nosotros have set, and reliably guarantee the security of our Motherland.

I believe in your back up and the invincible force rooted in the beloved for our Fatherland.

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