Vladimir Putin

I doubt that is possible. Trump is a mature politician — more than mature, and already an experienced one.

But saving the “Kyiv regime” isn’t part of our plans.

Nobody signed anything, but we talked about certain possibilities for ending the conflict in Ukraine," Putin said.

All the strikes, wherever they hit our infrastructure, absolutely do not affect the situation on the front, on the line of combat contact," he said.

The first task is to quickly and significantly ramp up production of those air defence systems that are most needed.

We have to reduce to a minimum the impact of terrorist attacks on our civilian targets and infrastructure," he said.

We are ready to continue negotiations... and discuss all the details.

We will undoubtedly overcome all the challenges facing us today, including terrorist attacks on our territory and infrastructure facilities.

Yes, we see the problems, we are aware of them and are responding to them, but we will certainly ensure the security of both the country and our citizens, as well as the inviolability of Russia's borders.

As for strikes against critical infrastructure in general, and energy infrastructure in particular, of course, these attacks on our infrastructure facilities create problems.

Russia will press ahead with its battlefield aim of fully capturing four Ukrainian regions

Now in the West they openly say that they are preparing for war with us, and are increasing their military, offensive budgets.

Yes, economic growth is currently subdued. I want to remind the government of the target they’ve been set: we need to return to a path of sustainable domestic economic growth starting as early as next year.

We've been deceived, and we want to achieve a situation where a reliable security system is built in Europe.

The movement of (NATO) military infrastructure toward our borders raises, and has raised, and continues to raise, our legitimate concerns ... We're not demanding anything out of the ordinary; we're not saying that any country doesn't have…

We cooperate in the military field, and regularly conduct joint exercises: strategic aviation patrols, at sea and between ground forces,

And we will intensify our strikes on the enemy’s infrastructure so as to take away its desire to attack our civilian targets.

Everything was quickly restored.

“But they will not succeed,” he added.

Their goal is to create a split in Russian society, sow confusion and inflict economic damage,

Given what they are doing, we must – and this is our next task – respond appropriately. And we are doing that, and will continue to increase our strikes on the enemy's infrastructure so as to discourage them from attacking our civilian…

I don’t see the point in meeting; the only point is for the Ukrainian side to halt the advance of our armed forces.

For us, it means only one thing: we need to strengthen our security, strengthen air defenses, and we will do that.

The roots of the current global turbulence lie in the transition from a vertical, hierarchical model, which served the interests of a small number of states, to a more complex, distributed and multipolar one.

Naturally, the Ukrainian side would like us to suspend the advances made by Russian troops.