2023 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly

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Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
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Vladimir Putin delivering the speech at Moscow's Gostiny Dvor
Native name Послание президента Федеральному собранию
Date21 February 2023
(11 months ago) (2023-02-21)
Time12:05 MSK (09:05 UTC ) [1]
Duration105 minutes [2] [1]
Venue Gostiny Dvor
Location Moscow, Russia
Coordinates 55°45′14″N37°37′32″E / 55.7540°N 37.6255°E / 55.7540; 37.6255
Type Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
Participants Vladimir Putin
External media
Images
Searchtool.svg Television display in Luhansk [3]
Searchtool.svg Screen on Volgograd business center [3]
Searchtool.svg Digital billboard in Sevastopol [3]
Searchtool.svg Display on Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow [3]
Video
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg The speech, in its entirety (in Russian) [4]

On 21 February 2023, almost a year after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin delivered an address to the Federal Assembly, at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, Russia. [3] [5] This was the first Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly since the start of the invasion; Putin did not deliver such an address in 2022. [6] [7] [lower-alpha 1]

Contents

Overview

During the address, Putin asserted that the West had started the war, and that Russia had been using force to end it. [9] [10] [11] [12] He stated that the Ukrainian people were hostages of the Ukrainian government. [6] [10] [13] [12] Putin also said that the West had planned to turn a local conflict into a global one, and that the conflict represented an existential threat to Russia. [9] [10] [12] He added that it was impossible to defeat Russia, and vowed to continue fighting in Ukraine. [6] [10] [12] He also praised the people of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia for the choice they made during the previous year's annexation referendums. [10] [12] Near the end of his speech, Putin announced that Russia would be suspending its participation in the nuclear disarmament treaty New START. [14] [1] [12]

Putin's address was simultaneously broadcast on television and in schools and government buildings, as well as displayed on large screens in public places in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine. [3] It was delivered a day after U.S. president Joe Biden had made a surprise visit to Kyiv, his first to Ukraine since the start of the invasion. [15] [16] [17] [lower-alpha 2]

On the same day but after Putin's address, CNN reported that U.S. officials had stated that a test of the Sarmat, a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile, appeared to have failed shortly before the address. [18] [19] (It was initially reported that the missile test had apparently occurred while Biden was in Ukraine, but a U.S. official later stated that the test had occurred on 18 February 2023, three days before Putin's speech. [20] [18] ) Prior to the test, Russia had informed the U.S. of the intended missile launch, as required by New START. [20] [18] [lower-alpha 3] U.S. officials stated that such a test was considered routine, and not an escalation of the conflict. [20] [18] [24] Putin did not mention the missile test during his speech. [25] [18] [21]

Biden also delivered a speech in Warsaw, Poland, hours after Putin had made his presidential address. [26] [11] [15] The following day, Putin made a brief appearance at a rally at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow commemorating Defender of the Fatherland Day. [27] [28]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Russian constitution requires the president to address the Federal Assembly annually. [7] TASS reported that Putin stated that there was no address in 2022 "because the situation was unfolding very quickly and it was difficult 'to fix the results at a specific point, as well as specific plans for the near future.'" [8]
  2. ↑ Russian officials were informed about the trip hours before it began. [17]
  3. ↑ Russia had notified the U.S. of the missile test via deconfliction lines. [19] [21] [22] The U.S. also used deconfliction lines to notify Russia of Biden's visit to Kyiv. [18] [23] [17]

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