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AlbanianRussian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with local residents, veterans and representatives of civil society organizations to mark the 80th anniversary of a breakthrough in the siege of Leningrad during World War Two at the State Memorial Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad in Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 18, 2023. Sputnik/Ilya Pitalyov/Pool via REUTERSREUTERS
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia’s powerful military-industrial complex was ramping up production and was one of the main reasons why his country would prevail in Ukraine.
Speaking to workers at a factory in St Petersburg that makes air defence systems, Putin said overall military equipment output was rising even as demand for it was growing because of what he calls Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“In terms of achieving the end result and the victory that is inevitable, there are several things … It is the unity and cohesion of the Russian and multinational Russian people, the courage and heroism of our fighters … and of course the work of the military-industrial complex and factories like yours and people like you,” said Putin.
“Victory is assured, I have no doubt about it.”
Putin said Russian arms companies manufactured about the same number of anti-aircraft missiles as the rest of the world combined, and three times more than the United States.
Earlier, he had attended an event with veterans to mark the 80th anniversary of the lifting of the World War Two siege of his home city, then known as Leningrad, which Nazi German forces had blockaded for nearly 900 days.
He told the veterans that Russia was fighting in Ukraine to defend ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers, which Moscow says are subject to systematic discrimination in Ukraine.
Kyiv rejects the allegation and says Moscow is using it as a pretext for a naked colonial-style land grab.
“What we’re doing today, including with our special operation, is an attempt to stop this war and protect our people who live on these territories,” said Putin.
“These are our historical territories,” he said – a reference to the fact that large parts of today’s Ukraine were once part of the Russian Empire.
Putin was born in Leningrad in 1952 and began his foreign intelligence career in the city with the Soviet KGB. Later on he held positions in the city administration while his political mentor Anatoly Sobchak was mayor.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Gareth Jones)
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