President Putin: A year ago, to protect people living in our historic lands, to ensure security of our country, to eliminate the threat emanating from the neo-nazi regime in Ukraine that took power after the coup of 2014, we have taken a decision to launch the Special Military Operation. Step by step, carefully and consistently, we are going to resolve the outstanding tasks.

President Putin: United States and NATO were promptly deploying their troops, and army bases, secret biolabs, near our borders.

President Putin: The goal of the west is unbridled power. They have already spent more than one hundred and fifty billion dollars to supply weapons to the Kiev regime.

President Putin: What they have at stake is trillions of dollars, and the opportunity to continue to steal from everyone, hiding behind the words about freedom and democracy by imposing totalitarian values that they call liberal…they are suppressing freedom of thought in their own countries. They try to distract their own people from the corruption scandals.

President Putin: The west…supported the coup in 2014. It was a bloody coup, anti-state coup, anti-constitutional coup. And it's like nothing happened. Like it's normal way of things. They even informed everyone how much money they spent on this.

President Putin: The main thing is that they are waging war against us. Against Russia. And that means they meed to use everyone; terrorists, neo-nazis. Devil if they have to.