cosmonaut tics, and everybody has specialfeelings today, the pride cosmonaut tics, and everybody has special feelings today, the pride of the generation who did this national heroic breakthrough at the same time as the belief in our future and strength and our continuous development. cosmonautics day. we believe we will complete all set goals and i m confident this will happen. from my heart i congratulate you all, all our citizens, of russia and belorussia, all of our compatriots, our cosmonauts and the staff of the space centre. special words to the military here and space forces. these forces are all intricately connected. we are aware
given for this invasion. beyond that he has sought again and again to represent ukraine itself as a threat to russian security. we heard more of that from him today saying the regime in kyiv has in effect been nurturing neo nazism. it is a powerful narrative and used a lot to justify this war, russians are told in terms which very much echo and bring back very long memories of the second world war, the great patriotic war as they call it here, in which so many russians lost their lives fighting german nazi forces. that is used again and again to justify the war, we have heard more of that from vladimir putin today and he said ukraine was being used as a launch pad for anti russian sentiment in general, again telling russians he is not waging war in ukraine because he really wants to, but because he sees it as a necessary step in order
candidate status. you had stopped importing russian gas. candidate status. you had stopped importing russian gas. any more can do? in the economic importing russian gas. any more can do? in the economic sanctions - importing russian gas. any more can do? in the economic sanctions we . importing russian gas. any more can| do? in the economic sanctions we had to move together with the rest of the eu, because individual member states cannot apply their own economic sanctions policy. if we were larger than certainly there are areas we would sanction too but we areas we would sanction too but we are working together with allies to move all the 27 eu states to adopt much further reaching sanctions like a total embargo on oil, a more rapid phasing out of gas, sanctions on banks and other sanctions which would really hurt the russian economy and stop the war machine from grinding on and on. idice from grinding on and on. vice minister mantas from grinding on and on. vice minister mantas a
states, in poland or moldova. we have to do now, help ukrainians to win this victory. have to do now, help ukrainians to win this victory. how concerned are ou about win this victory. how concerned are you about your win this victory. how concerned are you about your borders win this victory. how concerned are you about your borders as - win this victory. how concerned are you about your borders as you - win this victory. how concerned are l you about your borders as you watch what is taking place by russia and the support it is receiving from belarus? . , the support it is receiving from belarus? ., , ., belarus? certainly we are under the nato umbrella belarus? certainly we are under the nato umbrella and belarus? certainly we are under the nato umbrella and we belarus? certainly we are under the nato umbrella and we trust - belarus? certainly we are under the nato umbrella and we trust that - belarus? certainly we are under the i nato umbrella and we trust that nato will r
that the military operation in ukraine would undoubtedly achieve what he said were its noble objectives. these pictures were taken at an awards ceremony at the vostochny cosmodrome in the russian far east with belarus president lukashenko. at the event, putin was quoted as saying by russian news agencies that moscow had no other choice but to launch a military operation to protect russia and that a clash with ukraine s anti russian forces had been inevitable. let s talk to our moscow correspondentjenny hill. she has been following events for us. tell us what he has been saying, please? us. tell us what he has been saying, lease? ., ., , ,., please? vladimir putin has sought, i think, to reemphasise please? vladimir putin has sought, i think, to reemphasise his please? vladimir putin has sought, i think, to reemphasise his narrative, | think, to reemphasise his narrative, which casts his country as the victim. he has told workers at that space centre that his country had no