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{{quotebox-float|"The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and [[genocide]] perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.  It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-transcript-vladimir-putin-s-televised-address-to-russia-on-ukraine-feb-24</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|"The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and [[genocide]] perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.  It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-transcript-vladimir-putin-s-televised-address-to-russia-on-ukraine-feb-24</ref>}}

====St. Petersburg International Economic Forum speech====

====St. Petersburg International Economic Forum speech====

Vladimir Putin delivered a speech to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 17, 2022.  Zerohedge reported:

Vladimir Putin delivered a speech to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 17, 2022.<ref>https://thesaker.is/president-putin-st-petersburg-international-economic-forum-plenary-session/</ref> Zerohedge reported:

{{quotebox-float|"Over the past decades, new powerful centers have been formed on the planet […] each of them develops their own political system and public institutions, implements their own models of [[economic growth]], and, of course, has the right to protect themselves, to ensure national [[sovereignty]]. We are talking about real processes, about truly revolutionary, tectonic changes in [[geopolitics]], global economy, the technological sphere, in the entire system of [[international relations]]....In the current situation, against a backdrop of soaring risks and threats, Russia’s decision to conduct a [[special military operation]] was a forced one. It was very hard to make it, but it was forced and necessary. It was a decision by a sovereign country that has an unconditional right based on the UN Charter to defend its security."   

{{quotebox-float|"Over the past decades, new powerful centers have been formed on the planet […] each of them develops their own political system and public institutions, implements their own models of [[economic growth]], and, of course, has the right to protect themselves, to ensure national [[sovereignty]]. We are talking about real processes, about truly revolutionary, tectonic changes in [[geopolitics]], global economy, the technological sphere, in the entire system of [[international relations]]....In the current situation, against a backdrop of soaring risks and threats, Russia’s decision to conduct a [[special military operation]] was a forced one. It was very hard to make it, but it was forced and necessary. It was a decision by a sovereign country that has an unconditional right based on the UN Charter to defend its security."