Vladimir Putin

Our response to counter assaults will be lightning fast. We have all the tools for this.

If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside, they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia. They must know that our response to counter strikes will be lightning fast.

If someone intends to intervene into the ongoing events in Ukraine from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to those strikes will be swift, lightning-fast.

Putin does not live in a world of politics. There is no feedback system for the vast majority of his population.

He believes that he's sent by some higher forces to save Russia and restore Soviet Union.

The idea that Europeans and Russian opponents of the Kremlin are all sexual deviants with the taste for pedophilia is a strange but recurring theme in Russian propaganda.

If those countries do join NATO, he will move nuclear weapons to the Baltic region.

It is about historical roots of our spirituality and statehood. It is about what makes us a nation and a united unified nation.

Vladimir Putin is making a deliberate strategy to target the food supply himself.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. And we are seeing how heroically our military are fighting during this operation.

That is Putin himself holding a MAGA-style stadium rally in Moscow this morning to galvanize Russian support for what he's euphemistically calling a special military operation but which the rest of the world knows as the mass slaughter of…

The best proof is the way our boys are fighting in this operation, shoulder to shoulder, supporting each other, and if need be, protecting each other like brothers.

Of course, they will try to rely on the so-called fifth column, on national traitors, on those who earn money here with us and live there. But any people, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true…

The best proof, is the way our boys are fighting, in this operation, shoulder-to-shoulder, supporting each other and, if need be, protecting each other, like brothers, shielding one another, with their bodies, on the battlefield. We…

The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths.

We will never allow Ukraine to become a stronghold of aggressive actions against our country.

In many Western countries, people, just because they came from Russia, are subjected to real bullying today. They are denied medical care, their children are expelled from schools, their parents are deprived of jobs, they ban Russian…

The struggle we are waging is a struggle for our sovereignty, for the future of our country and our children.

But any people, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like a fly into the mouth, spit them out. I am convinced that such a natural and…

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weak and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation…

The West will try to rely on the so-called death column on national traitors, on those who earn money here with us, but live there and I mean live there not even in a geographical sense of the word, but according to their thoughts, their…

Putin, by doing this, has lost Ukraine.

Does he want to crash this entire country?

Putin was on Russian television to lie and say that everything was going according to plan.

He seems hell bent on creating this mystical, imperial notion of Russki Mir, the Russian world, but it’s folly.