MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Russian presidential race frontrunner and incumbent President Vladimir Putin believes that Russia’s future governmental structures should me made up of people who are now taking part in the special operation in Ukraine.

"I’ve had one simple idea, which <…> I am now trying to put into practice. The people who are not sparing themselves, who are fighting to defend the interests of their motherland, sustaining losses and suffering from wounds, need to be among those who will comprise Russia’s future government structures," Putin told reporters at his campaign headquarters.

The president said the idea came to his mind when he was meeting with special operation participants in Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg.