Vladimir Putin: “How will those 30 days be used? For Ukraine to mobilise? Rearm? Train people? Or none of that?”

The Defense Ministry had already received instructions to prepare a response.

If European states continue to plunder commercial vessels containing Russian cargo, Moscow will be forced to respond in kind,

The stability of regional finances is also the direct responsibility of the federal government and the Finance Ministry.

Of course, such attacks have not caused, and could not cause, critical consequences. However, they do inflict damage. This is obvious, and we fully understand and acknowledge it.