President Putin: Russia isn’t refusing to negotiate; it is Ukraine that walked away from peace negotiations.
President Putin: NATO is escalating and inching closer to a global conflict, but Russia will not be deterred.
President Putin: According to a preliminary assessment, the Parliament and its Speaker remain the only legitimate authority in Ukraine.
President Putin: The legitimacy of Ukraine’s current head of state has ended.
President Putin: Russia will continue strengthening ties with the global majority and remains open to dialogue with the West.
Vladimir Putin takes his fifth presidential oath of office at the inauguration ceremony.
Christ is risen! President Putin attends midnight Orthodox Easter service at the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
President Putin suggests Ukraine return to negotiating the peace agreement it abandoned in April 2022.
President Putin: The idea of Russia posing a threat to NATO is nonsense, being used to justify the funding of the war in Ukraine.
President Putin: The strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure are in response to Ukraine’s attacks on Russian energy facilities.
President Putin reacts to Switzerland’s plans to host a Ukraine peace summit without Russia’s participation.
President Putin instructs the military to prepare for further advances to build on the success in Avdeyevka.
President Putin: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is, to some extent, a civil war, but reunification is inevitable.
President Putin: For the West, Ukraine is about gaining a tactical advantage, while for Russia it’s a matter of destiny and survival.
President Putin addresses the false claim that Ukraine’s Hitler collaborators and present-day national heroes weren’t real Nazis.
President Putin regrets that the military operation in Ukraine was not launched sooner.
President Putin: Russia’s medical industry has achieved major breakthroughs and is on the cusp of creating cancer vaccines.
President Putin: For Russia, Biden is a better option than Trump.
President Putin says he didn’t fully enjoy the interview with Tucker Carlson because it lacked tough questions.
President Putin: Does the U.S. have nothing better to do than to fight Russia in Ukraine?