"Why should we use weapons of mass destruction? There has never been such a need," Putin said. When asked whether such an idea ever occurred to him, Putin replied, "No, but why?"

"We are ready to use weapons, any weapons, including the one that you mentioned, if we are talking about the existence of the Russian state, our sovereignty, and independence being undermined. We have all this written down in our strategy, we have not changed it," Putin said.

"We are, however, ready for a serious conversation, and we want to resolve all conflicts, and especially this conflict, by peaceful means. But we must clearly understand for ourselves that this is not a pause that the enemy wants to take for rearmament, but this is a serious conversation with security guarantees for Russia," Putin said, adding that Russia knows the various options being discussed and knows the "carrots that are going to be shown" to convince them that the time for negotiations has come.

The US and other Western countries will take the Gazans into their country, thereby helping Israel ethnically cleanse the region. “The United States will say ‘Alright, we’ll take 50,000,’ Canada will say – Canada already said this – ‘we’ll take 30,40,50,000.’ …and so on. Israel could get rid of a million or more Palestinians, with the help – the complicity – of European and North American countries, under the guise of humanitarian aid for refugees… That’s what Israel is calling ‘voluntary transfer.’”

“[Israel will] lock them into small little islands with the help of Biden, we’ll call those Bantustans a state, and now we have a two-state solution. Israel is on 85% of the country, it controls everything [and] it’s a Jewish country, but there’s a Palestinian state on a few little islands that will be recognized by the international community and now we’re done with the Palestinians and we can move on,” Halper explained. “In other words, Israel thinks it can get away with apartheid in a way South Africa couldn’t, and there’s good reason to believe that might be true.”

"Here is the latest report from the General Staff - somewhere up to 300 people, including with the participation of foreign mercenaries," the president said in an interview with Dmitry Kiselev for Russia 1 and RIA Novosti.

"Some even thought it was excessive. ‘Why are Russians buying houses here, buying apartments, everything here is in Russian?’ At the domestic level, I don't even think… I know, at the domestic level, such Russophobia began to grow. Maybe some political forces in the country decided to take advantage of this kind of domestic bias. Perhaps," Putin noted.

"They are fantasizing, encouraging themselves, first of all. Secondly, they are trying to intimidate us. As for the Federal Republic of Germany, there are constitutional problems there. They correctly say: if these Taurus hit that part of the Crimean Bridge, which, of course, even according to their concepts, is Russian territory, this is a violation of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany," the president said.