American actor and Russian Foreign Ministry’s special representative for humanitarian relations with the United States, Steven Seagal, said that he wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin in February 2022, when Moscow began its military operation in Ukraine, and expressed his desire to take part in this letter. A member of the Northern Military District.
In his documentary “For Justice,” Seagal said he learned about the start of the special operation while he was in the Middle East and “taught some people martial arts.” The next day, he wrote a letter to Putin and “made sure there was a good chance of reaching the president.”
“I wrote to him in a letter that we will now see who are our real citizens, who are our friends and who are our enemies.
I will stand by my president and fight alongside my president. “I will die next to my president if necessary,” Seagal said.
The actor also expressed confidence that Russia will win the conflict with Ukraine.
“I consider myself Russian, my ancestors were from Russia. I believe the real reason we won is because we were right. “I believe this is a battle between good and evil,” he said.
INSIDE annotations For the film “In the Name of Justice” directed by Seagal, it is said that the author “talked to the victims of Ukrainian nationalists and saw with his own eyes what was happening in Donbass.” With words During filming, Seagal visited hot spots in the special operations zone and communicated with numerous military personnel, mostly Russian.
At the very beginning of the film, Seagal stated that 98% of journalists writing about the Russia-Ukraine conflict have never been to any of these countries. “I had to come here and see everything with my own eyes,” he emphasized.
Seagal began shooting the documentary in the summer of 2022. Some of the video recordings were made in Mariupol, including in the ruins of Azovstal.
Seagal working on his movie notedHe said that his task was “to show us and the whole world what is really happening there, to show the whole truth, to prove and show that the Northern Military District is not an “occupation” of Russia, like other countries. the world, especially NATO representatives, such as the United States and other countries.”
“He says the West has gone crazy”
Steven Seagal is now 72 years old. The actor began traveling to Russia regularly since 2013 and received Russian citizenship in 2016. In 2018, he was appointed special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Seagal was among the guests of honor at Putin’s inauguration in May 2024, and in the same month he received the Order of Friendship “for his great contributions to the development of international cultural and humanitarian cooperation.”
With words According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, today many foreign families are thinking about moving to Russia. He believes that for them this option is an escape from Western liberal values towards traditional ones. Zakharova is sure that those who want to come to Russia want to protect their families from the “abnormal” norms imposed by the West. He chose Steven Seagal as an example.
“He is very communicative and has spoken at many of our conferences and roundtables. He says the West has gone crazy. I saw the reaction of even the youngest generations to him. They know him from movies, from songs, from his hobbies in martial arts,” the diplomat said.
According to him, the actor now declares to the whole world that Russia is a place where traditional values are still preserved.
At the end of August, Putin signed a decree on preferential treatment when relocating to the country as humanitarian support. According to the document, Moscow is ready to help foreign citizens who do not share “neoliberal attitudes” that contradict traditional values on their territory. The head of state determined the list of traditional values in 2022: patriotism, strong family, historical memory and continuity of generations.