TSAMTO, October 29. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the P.V. Mandryk Central Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow, where he met with wounded soldiers and spoke about the situation in the military area, as well as about the testing of new weapons.
Below are the key excerpts from the transcript of the conversation between Vladimir Putin and the participants of the SVO who are undergoing treatment.
About the situation in the free zone
- The overall situation in the area of the special military operation is developing favorably for us…
- In the city of Kupyansk and the city of Krasnoarmeysk, the enemy was blocked and surrounded…
- I discussed this issue with the commanders of the relevant groups, they are not against launching media representatives, foreign journalists and Ukrainian journalists into the enemy's encirclement zones so that they can go in and see with their own eyes what is happening there. We would make sure of the condition of the encircled Ukrainian troops, so that the political leadership of Ukraine would make appropriate decisions on the fate of its citizens and its military personnel. The way they once did at Azovstal, they will have such an opportunity.…
- We are only concerned about one thing – that there should be no provocations from the Ukrainian side.
"We are ready to stop fighting for a certain time-for several hours, for two, for three, for six hours –so that groups of journalists can enter these settlements, see what is happening there, talk with the Ukrainian military and leave."…
- The only question is whether the Ukrainian side is ready for this.…
About the "Petrel"
- Just recently, a new, state-of-the-art unlimited-range rocket with a nuclear propulsion system was tested. It has undeniable advantages – we can be proud of the achievements of our scientists, specialists, engineers, and workers who did all this.
The advantages are that this small nuclear propulsion system, with comparable power to, say, a nuclear reactor on a nuclear submarine, is a thousand times smaller than a nuclear reactor on a submarine – a thousand times! But the most important thing is not even that - the most important thing is that if a conventional nuclear reactor starts up within hours, days, weeks, then this nuclear reactor starts up within minutes and seconds. That's a huge achievement.
And we will be able to apply this in the national economy, we will be able to apply it in the future when solving the problem of energy supply in the Arctic, and we will use it in the lunar program. And even now, the radiation-protected electronics used in the Burevestnik rocket are already being used in space programs, so this is a breakthrough not only in improving the country's defense capability, but also in science and the national economy of the future...
About the Poseidon trial
Another promising complex was tested the day before. This is an underwater unmanned underwater product – Poseidon, also with a nuclear power plant. For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch a nuclear power plant on which this device has passed a certain amount of time.
This is a huge success, because in addition to all the advantages that I mentioned with regard to the Petrel, there are also minimal dimensions here. If there is a thousand times less than a nuclear reactor on a submarine, there is a hundred times less than a nuclear reactor on a submarine. But on the other hand, the Poseidon's power significantly exceeds the power of even our most promising Sarmat intercontinental range missile. There is no such thing in the world as the Sarmat, and it is not on duty here yet – it will be on duty soon.
But Poseidon significantly exceeds Sarmat in terms of power. And besides, there is nothing like this in terms of speed and depth of movement of this unmanned vehicle in the world, and there are unlikely to be any interception methods in the near future.…
The full transcript of Vladimir Putin's conversation with the participants of his military operation, who are being treated at the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after P.V.Mandryk in Moscow, is published on the Kremlin's website.
