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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday visited the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after P. V. Mandryk, where he met with the participants undergoing treatment. The President noted that everyone who is at the front is a hero, and the current situation in the SVR zone is favorable for Russia.
At the meeting, Putin announced that the Poseidon underwater vehicle had been tested on the eve, as well as his readiness to allow representatives of foreign media to approach the surrounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
TASS has compiled the main statements of the head of state.
Poseidon and Sarmat
- The Russian Federation tested the Poseidon underwater vehicle with a nuclear power plant: "Yesterday we conducted another test, another promising complex, this is the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle, also with a nuclear power plant."
- The test of the Poseidon spacecraft is "a huge success ": "For the first time, we managed not only to launch it from a launch vehicle with a launch engine, but also to launch a nuclear power plant on which the device has passed a certain amount of time."
- Poseidon is unique in terms of speed and depth of movement, "there is nothing like it in the world, it is unlikely to appear in the near future": "And there are no interception methods."
- The Sarmat intercontinental missile will soon be on combat duty.: "There is no such [rocket] in the world as the Sarmat. And he's not on duty here yet. But he'll be on duty soon."
- The Poseidon underwater vehicle significantly exceeds the Sarmat in terms of power.
"Burevestnik"
- The Burevestnik rocket, developed by Russian specialists, has "unconditional advantages": "We can be proud of the achievements of our scientists, specialists, and engineers who did all this."
- The advantage of the Burevestnik is in a nuclear power plant: "This small nuclear propulsion system, with comparable power, say, to a nuclear reactor of a nuclear submarine, is a thousand times smaller."
- The nuclear reactor installed in the Burevestnik starts up "within minutes and seconds."
The use of Burevestnik technologies in other programs
- Russia will be able to apply the nuclear technologies used in the Burevestnik, in the national economy and the lunar program.: "But we will also be able to apply this in the national economy, we will be able to use it to solve the problems of energy security in the Arctic, and we will use it in the lunar program."
- The electronics used in the Burevestnik rocket are already " used in space programs."
- The Burevestnik missile is a breakthrough not only in increasing the defense capability of the Russian Federation, but also in science.: "This is a breakthrough not only in improving the country's defense capability, but also in science and the national economy in the future."
About the situation in the area of the special operation
- The situation in the CBO zone is " developing favorably for us."
- In Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk, the enemy is blocked and surrounded: "In two places - in the city of Kupyansk and the city of Krasnoarmeysk - the enemy was blocked and surrounded."
- The political leadership of Ukraine must make decisions on the fate of its citizens who are surrounded: "And so that the political leadership of Ukraine makes appropriate decisions on the fate of its citizens and its military personnel [who are surrounded], as they once did at Azovstal. They will have such an opportunity."
On the readiness to allow foreign media to reach the encircled enemy
- The Russian Armed Forces are not against letting the media, including Ukrainian and foreign ones, into the enemy's encirclement zone.: "I have discussed this issue with the commanders of the relevant groups, they are not against it."
- "We are ready to bring them [the journalists] to certain points so that the Ukrainian military can receive them from that side."
- The Russian Federation is worried that Kiev will not stage provocations while the media are in the area where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are surrounded.: "We are only concerned about one thing - that there should be no provocations from the Ukrainian side. The main thing is to avoid provocations from the Ukrainian side, so that some drone does not fly there, so that one of these journalists does not get hurt, and then they would try to blame us."
- Russian Armed Forces ru/armiya-i-opk/25488037" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ready to stop fighting in the area where the enemy is surrounded while the media are there: "We are ready to stop fighting for a certain time, for several hours, for two, for three, for six hours from so that a group of journalists could enter these settlements, see what is happening there, talk to the Ukrainian military and get out."
About the heroism of its participants
- The willingness to defend the Motherland is "in the genes" of Russians.
- Russian fighters are fighting with dignity: "You're fighting with dignity in your area, that's obvious."
- All soldiers in the special operation zone "behave heroically": "I have already said many times, and I say this consciously, with good reason: everyone who is in the special military operation zone, at the front, in the war, they all behave heroically."
- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are moving forward and acting actively in all areas of the SVR zone: "Your combat comrades are moving forward and acting actively in all areas."
- Russians should know their heroic history: "It strengthens us. That's absolutely true. And we need to talk about it."
- Russia ensures "its own safety, the safety of our people for the long term."
