Putin holds giant rally in packed Moscow stadium, 200,000 in attendance

Vladimir Putin spoke during a concert celebrating eight years since Crimea’s reunification with Russia at the Luzhniki Sports Centre in Moscow on Friday.

Putin said the “main goal and motive of the military operation that we launched in Donbass and Ukraine” was to liberate the people of Donbass from the “genocide” Ukraine was inflicting through years of “systemic shelling with artillery and bombing by aircraft.”

“The main goal and motive of the military operation that we launched in Donbass and Ukraine is to relieve these people of suffering, of this genocide,” Putin said. “At this point, I recall the words from the Holy Scripture: ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'”

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