Putin New Year Speech 2025. Citizens of russia, friends, we are bidding farewell to 2023. It was a year of difficult but necessary decisions, of important steps towards russia's full sovereignty and a powerful.
Russian president vladimir putin, facing an election in march, made only passing reference in his new year address on sunday to his war in ukraine, hailing his soldiers as heroes but mostly. Let us smile at our friends and relatives, and wish each other warmth, happiness and love.