This is President Putin’s twenty fifth New Years Address to the nation.
🎄🇷🇺 New Year's Greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin
🔻Key Statements:
▪️As the President emphasized, Russia has become a strong, independent, free country that was able to respond to the most complex challenges of the time.
▪️"Everything will be fine, we will only move forward. We know for sure that the fate of Russia, the well-being of its citizens, has been, is and will be an absolute value for us."
▪️"This is how our unity, our faith in ourselves and in our strength, in our capabilities, has been strengthened. We still have much to decide, but we can be rightly proud of what has already been done."
▪️This period was filled with many historically significant, large-scale events. We set big goals for ourselves and achieved them. We overcame trials more than once, because we were together.
▪️On this New Year's Eve, the thoughts, hopes of loved ones, millions of people across Russia - together with our fighters and commanders.
▪️Putin stated that the fighters in the SMO are true heroes, who have taken on the great military labor of defending Russia, ensuring lasting guarantees of peace and security for the people.
▪️The Russian Federation is faithful to the precepts and traditions of the veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
▪️The upcoming 2025 has been declared the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland in Russia.
▪️The Russian leader wished well-being and prosperity to every home, every family and Russia.
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