This is a token of friendship that we highly appreciate, and undoubtedly, it will contribute to quite a sharp increase in the number of inbound and outbound trips, and certainly will create a more favourable environment for business, and will definitely bring our two countries closer.

And we will certainly reciprocate this token of friendship and we will do the same.

Should any troops be placed there, especially now, in the course of military action, we will treat those as legitimate military targets for an attack.

Should there be any arrangement that would allow us to achieve long-lasting peace, then I see no point for those troops to be positioned in the territory of Ukraine, as simple as that.

Because if all the arrangements are achieved, no-one should doubt that Russia will fully comply with these. We will treat the security guarantees with respect, and those are the security guarantees that have to be elaborated both for Russia and for Ukraine.

I would like to emphasise that Russia is still among the world's top five countries in terms of development and production of aircraft and rocket engines, having been there since the Soviet era. Over the past four years alone, the number of aircraft engines delivered has grown by over 50 percent, going from 791 to 1,227 units. <...> The positive momentum maintained by the industry creates the conditions for strengthening the industrial and technological sovereignty of the country, renewing transport fleets, renovating energy facilities, and, more broadly, encouraging economic growth and achieving the national development goals — as well as, naturally, for ensuring the companies in the industry and their numerous partners and suppliers all along the supply chain keep working at a good pace.