Putin to focus on special military operation in his Address to Federal Assembly

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In his upcoming State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay attention to topics related to the special military operation, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel.

"Our lives are now centered around the subject of the special military operation. The military operation affects our entire lives one way or another, as well as life on the continent. So, we should anticipate the president to pay particular attention to it," Peskov said.

Putin will deliver his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on February 21.

The Russian military destroyed a stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the LPR with two thermobaric rockets from the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system

Kremlin does not consider the West being open to peace initiatives

The West is not yet showing any readiness for peaceful initiatives on the situation in Ukraine, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV channel.

"So far there is no readiness or openness towards peaceful initiatives on the part of the collective West," he said.

The idea of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on talks between Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden is unlikely to gain support in the West, Peskov added. "It is hardly possible to expect any type of reciprocity or response to such an endeavor from any member of the collective West," he said.

Earlier, Lukashenko invited Biden to Minsk, saying he was willing to arrange his meeting with Putin.

Peskov stressed that Biden "will not have any stops during his upcoming European trip, except in Poland." On February 20-22, Joe Biden is expected to visit Poland, where he will meet with his counterpart Andrzej Duda and the leaders of the "Bucharest Nine" countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Estonia).

Employees of the Russian Guard, together with the FSB, discovered a cache of ammunition and weapons in one of the liberated settlements of the LPR

Special operation, 18 February. Main:

▪️ The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Russian troops destroyed up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kherson direction in a day, about 180 servicemen in the Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky directions;

▪️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liberated the village of Gryanikovka, Kharkiv region;

▪️The G7 Foreign Ministers at the first meeting under the chairmanship of Japan agreed to continue assistance to Ukraine, strengthen sanctions against Russia and call on third countries to stop assistance to the Russian Federation, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said;

▪️ ️UK Secretary of Defense Wallace said that Ukraine will receive modern fighters, such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, only after the end of the NWO. However, according to him, Ukraine's allies are ready "to take this step at some point";

▪️ The Hungarian government does not share the opinion that Russia threatens the security of Hungary and all of Europe, said Prime Minister Orban;

▪️ Orban believes that the conflict in Ukraine can only end with negotiations between the Russian Federation and the United States, this will inevitably happen, but the later, the higher the price will be;

▪️ China will prepare a document outlining its position on a political settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by the end of February, said Wang Yi, a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee.