Address announcing a 'special military operation'
President Putin during the televised address that launched Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which he called a 'special military operation' aimed at the 'demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine.' The operation label stands in for the word war. 'Denazification,' a term from Allied occupation policy after 1945, is applied to an elected government led by a Jewish president.
- Date
- February 24, 2022
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Government of the Russian Federation (President Vladimir Putin)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Broadcast
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Techniques
- Euphemism / doublespeakSemantic hijacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru)
Presidential Executive Office of Russia (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0.
Text on the object
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Checked closely: this still frame has no on-screen caption, lower-third, date stamp or channel bug. Putin sits at his desk with the Russian tricolour flag and state coat of arms behind him and two desk telephone/console units in view; the console has an ordinary numeric keypad but no message text. No other visible text in frame.
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