MOSCOW (Reuters) – Following are a few of the key quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual phone-in and information convention.
ON RUSSIA’S NEW ORESHNIK HYPERSONIC MISSILE
There is no such thing as a likelihood of capturing down these missiles…
Let Western specialists suggest to us, and allow them to suggest to these within the West and the U.S. who pay them for his or her evaluation, to conduct some sort of technological experiment, say, a high-tech duel of the twenty first century. Allow them to decide some goal for destruction, say in Kyiv, focus all their air defence and missile defence forces there, and we are going to strike there with Oreshnik and see what occurs. We’re prepared for such an experiment, however is the opposite aspect prepared?
ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE
I need to say that the state of affairs (on the entrance) is altering dramatically… There’s motion alongside the complete entrance line. Day-after-day…
And we’re transferring, as you stated, in direction of fixing our main duties, which we outlined at first of the particular navy operation…
Everyone seems to be preventing, actually heroically. And they’re preventing proper now. Allow us to want all of them, each those that are preventing within the Kursk area (of Russia) and those that are preventing alongside the complete entrance line, good luck, victory and to return residence.
ON THE ECONOMY
In Russia, the state of affairs is regular, secure, we’re growing regardless of every thing, regardless of exterior threats and makes an attempt to affect us…
After all, inflation is … an alarming sign…
There are some points right here, particularly inflation, a sure overheating of the financial system, and the federal government and the central financial institution are already tasked with bringing the tempo down…
There are subjective (causes for rising costs), and there are shortcomings on our half. For instance, some specialists consider that the central financial institution may have began utilizing sure instruments that aren’t associated to elevating the important thing price extra successfully and earlier. Sure, the central financial institution began doing all this someplace in the summertime, however, I repeat, these specialists consider that this might and will have been performed earlier…
That is an disagreeable and dangerous factor, in actual fact, the rise in costs. However I hope that generally, whereas sustaining macroeconomic indicators, we are going to deal with this too.
