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Vladimir Putin: Dear women!
I am sincerely pleased to congratulate you on International Women's Day!
We always mark this holiday with the brightest and warmest of feelings, admiring our wonderful women and speaking from the heart -- words of love, gratitude, and appreciation.
The generous, compassionate, and truly wise spirit of women makes the world a better and kinder place. A mother's love stays with every person for life: it gives warmth, multiplies moments of joy, and lends strength in the most difficult times of trial.
It sometimes seems there are no heights our women cannot reach. You achieve remarkable results across a wide range of professions. When the task demands it, you demonstrate exceptional strength of character and the qualities of a determined leader.
Without hesitation, you come to the aid of those who need it, surround your family and loved ones with care and attention, and devote yourselves to raising children.
Of course, it is no easy thing to do it all -- to captivate with your beauty and charm while also showing diligence, drive, and composure. Yet you manage it.
It is important to recognize and appreciate this. We will certainly continue to create all the necessary conditions -- at the state level, and I am confident, within families as well -- so that it is easier for women to combine motherhood with professional growth and successful self-fulfillment, so that they do not have to put off their personal, feminine, maternal happiness.
I would like to offer a special congratulation today to the women carrying out duties in the special military operation zone, working in very difficult conditions in Donbas and Novorossiya [terms used by Russian authorities to refer to the occupied and annexed regions of eastern and southern Ukraine], and in our border regions. Everywhere you display courage and bravery, selflessness and strength of spirit. I thank you sincerely and wholeheartedly.
Dear women!
Truly, everything is within your power: you know how to create and build, how to combine resilience with tenderness. And your desire to build a better future for your children inspires all of us to keep moving forward.
I wish you happiness with those who are dear to you, success in what matters to you, and good health and well-being for you and all your loved ones.
Happy holiday! Happy International Women's Day!