Thread by @ArthurM40330824

Sladkov at an economic forum in Piter says: Putin has been speaking for almost an hour now, clearly, with numbers and examples.
Main theme: development independent of the West.
Even for those that hate Putin his ability to retain and use vast amount of information is unreal

This guy is capable of keeping up with enormous amount of information and use it for his goals. He is extremely hands on and detail oriented. Persistent and tenacious. You don't have to like him but country leaders like that are a rare breed.

Sladkov is in real time providing a summary of what is being said at the conference
Vladimir Putin: “Economic independence cannot be partial. All elements of independence are important.”

Vladimir Putin:
- Specia Operation will be brought to an end;
- our actions to protect Donbass are legitimate;
- US actions in Iraq, Libya are not legitimate;
- the reason for such actions of the Americans - they imagined themselves to be representatives of the Lord God on Earth.

Regarding shelling of #Donetsk Putin saying the areas from where Ukraine is firing has large numbers of civilians if Russia shells it large civilian casualties will result, so instead their solution is more gradual cutting Ukr military from behind taking them out surgically

Vladimir Putin: shelling of #Donetsk will stop when we enter the rear of the Ukrainian fortified areas on the front line of the capital of the #DPR.

Of note Avdeevka from where Ukr is shelling Donetsk is extremely fortified over the past 8y.

Putin said that the firing on the Ukranian shelling positions on the part of the L/DNR and the Russian Federation would be intensified.

It is impossible to stop progress - Putin

"It's like trying to stop the sunrise,"

"We are interested in prosperity for all our neighbors. So the restoration of relations [with Ukraine] is inevitable," #Putin

"Ukraine came to the Russian Empire with three territories — Kiev, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv, the rest went to her later, including from Lenin" -#Putin.

"The structure of Ukraine's economy will require large subsidies, it risks becoming an EU colony", says #Putin.

#Putin: on the question of whether #Russia will leave #Donbass and the liberated territories of Ukraine:
In the end, their future will depend only on these people. We will respect any choice they make"

#Putin: Why exchange goods for #dollars and euros that lose their value? The era of real values ​​and assets is coming.

All the tasks of the special operation will be solved and the courage and heroism of our soldiers will be the key to this - #Putin

As Mark Twain said, rumors about my death are too exaggerated — #Putin

It is necessary to live not according to some invented rules, but according to the norms of international law - #Putin