Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech that triggered the invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022

This research study aims to analyze the speech of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022One of the research objectives is to examine how he constructs his speech around the issue, the arguments he uses, and the position he adopts at the beginning of the conflict. The research question we are trying to answer is the following: “How does leader Vladimir Putin construct his speech that launched the invasion of Ukraine?”. The purpose of the research is to observe how President Putin's speech influenced the launch of the invasion of Ukraine and the following events. The data collection method is the speech he gave on February 24, 2022, on the Russian television channeln Russia-2 (Россия-2), while the data analysis method is discourse analysis. At the end of the work, we are surprised by the fact that leader Vladimir Putin constructs and delivers his speech before the invasion of Ukraine using a series of elements of propaganda, disinformation, and strategic influence communication.