Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that if the West wants to defeat Russia on the battlefield, it can try.
“Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say, let us try. We often hear that the West wants to fight with us to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything is going in that direction,” Putin said in televised remarks to parliamentary leaders.
During the speech, the president of Russia also stated that his country does not reject negotiations to pacify the conflict in Ukraine, but that “the further you go, the more difficult it will be to reach an agreement with us”.
The Putin-coordinated invasion of Ukrainian territory, which Moscow calls a “special military operation”, has been going on for more than four months, since February 24.
Since the start of the fighting, Western countries have responded to the Kremlin’s actions by supplying Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky with weapons and applying sanctions against Russia.
“Sanctions are causing us difficulties, but not on the scale intended,” Putin declared on Thursday. “The West has failed in another attempt to contain Russia.”
Even today (7), the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Ukrainian armed forces confirmed that a plane commanded by Russian forces attacked Cobra Island — an important sea route that has been disputed by the two countries.
*With information from Reuters
Source: CNN Brasil
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