“It matters little who wants to intimidate us or at what point, it matters little who wants to crush us or at what point, our will and conscience. No one has ever succeeded in doing anything similar in history. That didn’t work today and it won’t work in the future.”
Russia will not be “intimidated” or “crushed”, Vladimir Putin said in a speech to his campaign team after thanking Russian citizens. “We are one and only team. I want to thank all the citizens of Russia who went to the polling stations and voted,” he said.
“It matters little who wants to intimidate us or at what point, it matters little who wants to crush us or at what point, our will and conscience. No one has ever succeeded in doing anything similar in history. That didn’t work today and it won’t work in the future.”
The results of the presidential election show Russians’ “confidence” in power…they will allow Russian society to stabilize and strengthen, the Russian president said in a speech at his campaign headquarters broadcast on Russian television.
“We have many specific and important goals to achieve. The results of the elections show the confidence of the citizens of the country and their hope that we will do everything that is foreseen,” he said.
Russia’s priority should be to fulfill the goals of the special military operation” in Ukraine and to strengthen the military, Putin said, adding that he would do everything possible to accomplish that mission and those goals that the he and his government consider them to be a priority.
Russian forces are gaining ground in Ukraine every day and have the initiative on the front, he said.
Russia should consider who it could talk to about the possibility of peace in Ukraine, he said, implying that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not an option.
Russia is ready for talks on the French proposal to implement a ceasefire during the Olympics, but to do so Russia’s interests on the front must be taken into account, he said.
Putin “revealed” that he had agreed to a prisoner swap involving Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and “it’s sad that he died”.
The key condition for the exchange was that Alexei Navalny would not return to Russia.
The protest against him organized by the opposition during the election process had no effect, he said, but people who prevented other people from voting by acts of vandalism should be punished.
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