My handle at the moment is in relation to the state of affairs in Donbas and the course of a particular navy operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime that seized energy in Ukraine in 2014 on account of an armed coup.
In the present day I attraction to you, to all residents of our nation, to individuals of various generations, ages and nationalities, to the individuals of our nice Motherland, to all who’re united by nice historic Russia, to the troopers and officers, volunteers who at the moment are preventing on the entrance traces, are on the fight put up, to our brothers and sisters – residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk Folks’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye areas, and different areas liberated from the neo-Nazi regime.
It is going to be in regards to the crucial, pressing steps to guard the sovereignty, safety and territorial integrity of Russia, about supporting the need and can of our compatriots to find out their very own future and in regards to the aggressive coverage of a part of the Western elites, who’re striving with all their would possibly to take care of their dominance, and for this they’re making an attempt to dam, to suppress any sovereign unbiased facilities of improvement in an effort to proceed to crudely impose their will on different international locations and peoples, to plant their pseudo-values.
The purpose of the West is to weaken, divide and in the end destroy our nation. They’re saying brazenly now that in 1991 they had been capable of cut up the Soviet Union, and now the time has come for Russia itself, that it ought to break up into many mortally hostile areas and areas.
And so they have been devising such plans for a very long time. They inspired worldwide terrorist gangs within the Caucasus, promoted the offensive infrastructure of NATO near our borders. They’ve weaponised total-Russophobia, together with for many years purposefully nurturing hatred for Russia, primarily in Ukraine which they’ve been getting ready to turn out to be an anti-Russian foothold, and the Ukrainian individuals themselves had been changed into cannon fodder and pushed to battle with our nation, unleashing this battle again in 2014, utilizing the armed forces in opposition to the civilian inhabitants, organizing genocide, blockade, terror in opposition to individuals who refused to acknowledge the ability that arose in Ukraine on account of a coup.
And after the present Kyiv regime really publicly refused a peaceable resolution to the Donbass drawback and, furthermore, introduced its ambition to accumulate nuclear weapons, it grew to become completely clear {that a} new, one more, because it had occurred twice earlier than, large-scale assault on the Donbass was inevitable. . After which, simply as inevitably, it might be adopted by an assault on the Russian Crimea, which is, – on Russia.
On this regard, the choice on a pre-emptive navy operation was completely crucial and was the one attainable choice. Its major purpose – liberating the entire of Donbass – was and stay unchanged.
The Lugansk Folks’s Republic has already been virtually utterly cleared of neo-Nazis. Combating within the Donetsk Folks’s Republic continues. Right here, for eight years, the Kyiv occupation regime created a deeply echeloned line of long-term fortifications. Their head-on assault would have resulted in heavy losses, so our models, in addition to the navy models of the Donbass republics, act systematically, competently, utilizing navy gear and saving personnel, and continuing step-by-step to liberate Donetsk, clear cities and cities from neo-Nazis, present help to individuals whom the Kyiv regime changed into hostages and into human shields.
As you understand, skilled servicemen serving beneath contract participate within the particular navy operation. Combating facet by facet with them are volunteer models – individuals of totally different ethnicities, professions and ages who’re actual patriots. They answered the name of their hearts to stand up in defence of Russia and Donbass.
On this regard, I’ve already given directions to the Authorities and the Ministry of Protection to find out, in full and within the shortest attainable time, the authorized standing of volunteers, in addition to fighters of the models of the Donetsk and Lugansk Folks’s Republics. It ought to be the identical as that of standard servicemen of the Russian military, together with materials, medical help, and social ensures. Specific consideration ought to be paid to organizing the availability of volunteer formations and detachments of the individuals’s militia of Donbass with navy and different gear.
In the middle of fixing the primary duties of defending Donbass, our troops, in accordance with the plans and choices of the Ministry of Protection and the Normal Workers, liberated from neo-Nazis important areas of the Kherson and Zaporozhye areas, and quite a lot of different areas. Because of this, an prolonged line of fight contact was shaped, which is over a thousand kilometers.
That is what I could make public for the primary time at the moment.
After the beginning of this particular navy operation, in specific after the talks in Istanbul, the representatives of Kyiv reacted very positively to our proposals, and these proposals primarily involved above all making certain Russia’s safety and our pursuits. Nevertheless, it’s apparent that the peaceable resolution didn’t go well with the West, due to this fact, after sure compromises had been coordinated, Kyiv was really given a direct order to wreck all agreements.
Ukraine started to be pumped up with weapons much more. The Kyiv regime has introduced into play new gangs of international mercenaries and nationalists, navy models educated to NATO requirements and run beneath the de facto command of Western advisers.
On the similar time, the regime of repression all through Ukraine in opposition to its personal residents, established instantly after the armed coup of 2014, was strengthened in essentially the most extreme approach. The coverage of intimidation, terror and violence is assuming increasingly mass, horrible, barbaric kinds.
I wish to emphasize that we all know that almost all of individuals residing within the territories liberated from neo-Nazis, and these are, to begin with, the historic lands of Novorossia, don’t wish to be beneath the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime. In Zaporozhye, within the Kherson area, in Lugansk and Donetsk, they’ve seen and are seeing the atrocities that neo-Nazis are doing within the occupied areas of the Kharkov area. The descendants of Bandera and Nazi punishers kill individuals, torture them, throw them in jail, settle scores, crack down on, torment civilians.
Greater than seven and a half million individuals lived within the Donetsk and Lugansk Folks’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson areas earlier than the outbreak of hostilities. Lots of them had been pressured to turn out to be refugees, to depart their properties. And people who remained – about 5 million individuals – at the moment are subjected to fixed artillery and rocket fireplace by neo-Nazi militants. They hit hospitals and colleges, perform terrorist assaults in opposition to civilians.
We can not, we’ve no ethical proper to permit individuals near us to be torn to items by executioners, we can not however reply to their honest need to find out their very own future. The parliaments of the individuals’s republics of Donbass, in addition to the military-civilian administrations of the Kherson and Zaporozhye areas, have determined to carry referendums on the way forward for these territories and so they have turned to us, Russia, with a request to help them.
Let me emphasize that we’ll do every part to make sure secure situations for holding referendums, so that folks can specific their will. And we’ll help the choice about their future, which might be made by nearly all of residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk Folks’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson areas.
Pricey mates!
In the present day, our Armed Forces, as I’ve already stated, are working on the road of contact mendacity over one thousand kilometers, they’re preventing in opposition to not solely neo-Nazi formations, however the truth is the complete navy machine of the collective West.
On this state of affairs, I contemplate it essential to make the next choice – which is absolutely ample to the threats we face – particularly: to guard our Motherland, its sovereignty and territorial integrity, to make sure the safety of our individuals and peoples of the liberated territories, I deem it essential to help the proposal by the Ministry of Protection and the Normal Workers on partial mobilization within the Russian Federation.
I repeat, we’re speaking particularly about partial mobilization, that’s, solely residents who’re presently within the reserve might be topic to conscription, and above all those that served within the Armed Forces, have sure navy specialties and related expertise .
These known as up for lively responsibility earlier than being despatched to models will endure further navy coaching acceptable for his or her expertise within the particular navy operation.
I’ve already signed a decree on partial mobilisation.
In accordance with the legislation, the chambers of the Federal Meeting – the Federation Council and the State Duma – might be formally notified about this in writing at the moment.
Mobilization is efficient from at the moment – 21 September. I instruct the heads of areas to offer all crucial help to facilitate the work of navy commissariats.
I wish to emphasize that Russian residents known as up for navy service by mobilization will obtain the standing, funds and all social ensures of navy personnel serving beneath a contract.
I’ll add that my Decree on Partial Mobilization additionally supplies for added measures to satisfy the state protection order. The heads of protection trade enterprises are immediately chargeable for fixing the duties in relation to growing the manufacturing of weapons and navy gear, and deploying further manufacturing capacities. On the similar time, all points of fabric, useful resource and monetary help for protection enterprises have to be resolved by the Authorities with none delay.
Pricey mates!
In its aggressive anti-Russian coverage, the West has crossed each line. We consistently hear threats in opposition to our nation, our individuals. Some irresponsible politicians within the West are doing extra than simply talk about organizing the availability of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine – techniques that may enable strikes in opposition to the Crimea and different areas of Russia.
Such terrorist strikes, together with with the usage of Western weapons, are already being carried out on the border settlements of the Belgorod and Kursk areas. In actual time, utilizing trendy techniques, plane, ships, satellites, strategic drones, NATO is finishing up reconnaissance all through southern Russia.
Washington, London, Brussels are immediately pushing Kyiv to switch navy operations to our territory. Now not hiding, they are saying that Russia ought to be defeated by all means on the battlefield, adopted by the deprivation of political, financial, cultural, basically, any sovereignty, with the entire plunder of our nation.
They’ve even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. We’re speaking not solely in regards to the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear energy plant, which is inspired by the West, which threatens a nuclear disaster, but additionally in regards to the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the main NATO member-states in regards to the chance and admissibility of utilizing weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons in opposition to Russia.
To those that enable themselves to make such statements about Russia, I wish to remind you that our nation additionally has many several types of these weapons, and in some points much more trendy than these of the NATO international locations. And when the territorial integrity of our nation is threatened, we will definitely use all of the means at our disposal to guard Russia and our individuals. It’s not a bluff.
The residents of Russia can ensure that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom might be ensured, I emphasize this once more, with all of the means at our disposal. And people who are attempting to blackmail us with nuclear weapons ought to know that the wind rose also can flip of their route.
It’s our historic custom, the future of our individuals to cease those that attempt for world domination, who threaten with the dismemberment and enslavement of our Motherland, our Fatherland. Relaxation assured that we’ll do it this time round as effectively.
I consider in your help.
