Vladimir Putin

The sponsors of Ukraine continue to try to use this country and its people as a battering ram.

Pyongyang has the right to take reasonable measures to strengthen its own defense capabilities, ensure national security, and protect sovereignty.

So far, the West has been ignoring our interests, he says. While they forbid Kyiv to negotiate, they hypocritically call on us to start some sort of negotiations. It just looks idiotic.

We have come on acceptably close to the point of no return, calls to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons demonstrate the extreme adventurism of Western politicians.

If the West supplies weapons to the combat zone and calls for their use against our territory, then why shouldn't we mirror these actions?

If they in the West supply weapons to the zone of combat operations and call for the use of these weapons against our territory, then why do we not have the right to do the same to mirror these actions? I'm not ready to say that we'll do…

We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, follows of the ideology that their Islamic world itself has been fighting against for centuries.

Vladimir Putin believed that was U.S. propaganda, U.S. scare-mongering, U.S. blackmail against the Russian Federation.

it's remarkable that a man who sort of sells himself as the sort of center of stability, the guarantor of stability in Russia, has not yet said a word about this appalling terrorist attack that's taken place so close to his capital.

There are a lot of tasks ahead of us, but when we are consolidated, and I think now it is understood to everyone, no matter how hard anyone tries to frighten us, whoever tries to suppress us, our will, our consciousness, no one has ever…

A conflict between Russia and NATO will be just one step away from a full-scale World War III.

Can you consider it democratic to use the administrative resources in order to attack one of the presidential candidates in the U.S., using at the same time the judicial system?

The main goal, I have no doubt about it, is to if not disrupt the presidential elections in Russia, then at least somehow interfere with the normal processes of expressing the will of citizens.

They must ultimately understand that we also have weapons and they know about it. Just as I said, we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. All of this really threatens conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and…

Putin realized that Navalny was going to challenge him, as long as he's alive. So, he, Putin, decided that it's better to kill Navalny and just to get rid of this problem by the name Navalny.

One of the things that Vladimir Putin has said is he believes that the U.S. needs what he calls instability in the Middle East in order to dominate the Middle East, but of course also, as he puts it, to dominate in the entire world.

I understand that this war with Ukraine, death of people, must be shocking. But what about the bloody state coup in Ukraine in 2014, which was followed by the war of the Kyiv regime against their own people in Donbas? Is it not shocking…

Of course, Putin himself has not been shy to say that he wants nothing less than a new world order, as he puts it, where Russia and China are stronger and the U.S. is weaker.

It's the current ruling elites of the United States and their satellites that are the main beneficiaries of global instability. They extract their blood toll from it.

He makes long long-term plans for the future. It's what differentiates the true world leaders from what we call temps. Temps only show off on the world stage for about five minutes before becoming lost to world history.

This is a clear example of the failure of the United States policy in the Middle East, which tried to monopolize any settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.

What we are facing now is treason, unreasonable ambitions and personal interests led to treachery, state treason, and betrayal of one's own people.

We have demonstrated that nobody can impose anything on us.

This is treachery. This is a betrayal of the state on the scale of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

All those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared an armed mutiny, who chose the path of blackmail and terrorist methods will face inevitable punishment and will answer both to the law and to our people.