Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.
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This Wednesday, Vladimir Putin spoke at the annual meeting of the Presidential Human Rights Council, an advisory body formed in 2004.
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The fact of the day
Vladimir Putin admitted that the conflict in Ukraine was "long", during a meeting broadcast on television with his Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, a pro-Kremlin assembly.
"Of course, it's a long process," said the Kremlin chief, while boasting of "significant results" in reference to the annexation he claims of four Ukrainian regions.
President Putin also referred to the four Ukrainian regions which he claimed to be annexed at the end of September, although Russia only partially controls them and fighting is raging there with the forces of kyiv.
Recall that the offensive launched in February was supposed to end in a flash Russian victory, but the Ukrainian army, galvanized by Western weapons, forced Russia to give up in the spring to take kyiv, and then in the fall to fall back in several other regions.
This month, the Russian army even had to retreat from Kherson, the capital of the eponymous region that Moscow considers to be its own.
The Kremlin had always denied that its offensive against Ukraine was intended to conquer new territories, claiming to want to defend the Russian-speaking populations and end the alliance between kyiv and the West.
The number of the day
150,000.
This is the number of Russian reservists currently deployed on the front, in Ukraine.
"Out of 300,000 of our mobilized fighters, our men, our defenders of the Fatherland, 150,000 are in the area of operation," said Vladimir Putin, still during this meeting broadcast on television.
The Russian president specified that 77,000 are currently deployed directly in combat.
The other 150,000 are still in training in Russia.
sentence of the day
For proving that courage can be as contagious as fear, for inspiring people and nations to unite in defense of freedom, for reminding the world of the fragility of democracy - and peace -, Volodymyr Zelensky and the Spirit of Ukraine are TIME's 2022 Person of the Year.
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These are the words of
Time
editor Edward Felsenthal.
These words were spoken on Wednesday as the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was named personality of the year 2022 by the American magazine.
The distinction, granted since 1927, is generally intended to highlight the weight and influence of a personality on the international scene, not necessarily his popularity.
In 2007, it was Vladimir Putin who had obtained it, at the time for having "imposed stability" on his country and brought "Russia to the table of the powerful of this world".
The trend of the day
He had this Wednesday brought together the handpicked members of his own human rights council.
On the menu, the war in Ukraine necessarily and therefore... the support of the allies in kyiv.
And Vladimir Putin therefore accused the UN and other international organizations, as well as the Western media, of having a biased anti-Russian attitude towards the offensive launched by Moscow in Ukraine.
“It was only after the start of the special military operation that the UN Human Rights Council, the Council of Europe and other so-called human rights organizations men suddenly 'saw the light' and shamelessly began to demonstrate their cynical bias,” Vladimir Putin lambasted.
"This means that these structures are not able to fulfill their statutory missions", he added during this meeting broadcast on television.
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Valdimir Putin thus considered that Western organizations for the defense of human rights had been created “mainly as an instrument of influence on the internal politics of Russia and especially of other countries of the former USSR”.
He also accused "foreign media" of spreading "despicable fakes" and "blatant lies" about Moscow's offensive, castigating them for "open racism" and "aggressive Russophobia".
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