Vladimir Putin

The elite of the West does not conceal their ambitions, which is to strategically defeat Russia.

President Biden was in Kyiv, but I think one of the things that the Kremlin sort of has been trying to put out there as a narrative will have been reinforced by this visit, which is that the Russians are essentially saying that they're not…

Clearly, they don't understand that modern war with Russia will be quite different for them. We won't send our tanks to their borders. But we have the means to respond. And it won't be with the use of armored vehicles.

the Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors. They will just spit them out.

In 2022, Russia laid foundations for its true independence. It was a year of difficult, necessary decisions.

These are draconian laws. It means that the military authorities, the Russian military, in the areas where it's in charge, have virtually absolute power to do whatever they want.

Of course, we see that today. There are elements of excessively dangerous politicization of everything connected with nuclear activity.

We don't leave our own behind.

Putin made sure to make a spectacle of this blatantly illegal land grab, calling it the will of, quote, millions of people.

not only do western leads deny national sovereignty and international law, their hegemony has pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism, and apartheid.

The country which used nuclear weapons twice in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they have created a precedent.

People have made this choice, and it`s a definitive choice. And this is the only path to peace. We will protect our land using all our forces.

I want to keep authorities and their real masters in the West to hear me and remember, those people who live in these four regions are becoming our citizens forever.

I would say that this is the most weakened, certainly that we have seen President Putin during his tenure.

Believe me, President Putin is facing a lot of pressure, especially from hardliners to get this done.

So now what President Putin can do is when Ukrainian forces hit areas in Donbas or in Zaporizhzhia or Kherson. They can say, you've just hit Russia, and we can now respond in our self-defense with the full force that is available at our…

Basically, Putin is fighting now for his survival as a President and as a person, because he is a dead body.

That Putin is trying to involve thousands and thousands of my fellow citizens in this crime of killing innocent people in Ukraine.

In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.

This is not a bluff. The citizens of Russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence, and freedom will be ensured, and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing…

Putin has single-handedly driven Russia back 50 years, he has the blood of 15,000 Russian soldiers on his hands.

Putin must immediately stop the war and resign.

Russian President Vladimir Putin bears full responsibility for the senseless and bloody war against Ukraine.

Everyone was expecting him to launch an escalation or perhaps even mobilize the population, for an all-out war. But, I think, he realizes that really raises the political risks, for him, that then he won't be able to justify the amount of…

U.S. and Western officials believe Vladimir Putin could soon formally declare war on Ukraine.