(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW lun 12 giugno 2023

The President visited the Vishnevsky Central Military
Clinical Hospital of the Russian Federation Defence Ministry where Armed Forces
service personnel wounded during the special military operation are undergoing treatment.
Vladimir Putin presented state decorations to the servicemen and talked to them.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: To start with, I congratulate you
on your state decorations and today’s holiday, Russia Day.

Of course, we cannot gather here all men taking
part in combat actions in the special military operation zone – it is
impossible to have them all in one place, not only in this hall, but anywhere. That’s
the first thing.

The second thing I’d like to say is that the commander was awarded the Star of Hero; the rest of you received the Order of Courage. The Order of Courage is a high decoration, but judging by what and how
you describe things – artillery shelling, then tanks, then armoured vehicles,
infantry – these are tough battles, which suggests that in fact the level of the decoration is certainly symbolic in nature. I think Yury Zhulanov would
also understand: everyone here has done the same kind of combat work that Yury
Zhulanov was doing. By and large, each of you is a hero in this sense.

If I were to explain all this in detail to a person who is far from the army and from the service that you have chosen for yourselves, then in the eyes of any normal person, each and every one of you is
a hero, just like the other men who are fighting at the front, fighting in the special military operation zone. Artillery fire, tanks, armoured vehicles – all
this is not a movie, it is all happening in reality.

So I want to emphasise that this awards ceremony
today – of course you each deserve it, obviously, but it is to a certain extent
a symbolic act, to emphasise the importance of the combat work that all the personnel
in the special military operation zone do, all of them without exception.

To be continued.

Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71351