📹 Vladimir Putin said Russia is ready for negotiations on Ukraine, but they should be based on reality, not on wishful thinking after the use of psychotropic agents. He also recalled that the West had repeatedly made promises that were immediately broken:

"Are we ready to negotiate? Yes, we are prepared to do so, but only if the negotiations are not based on some ‘wish list’ concocted after the use of narcotics… The talks must be based on the realities that have developed, so to say, on the ground. This is first and foremost.

Secondly, those things that have been promised to us time and again such as the commitment not to expand NATO to the East ended up being violated as NATO forces roll up on our borders. They promised, without delving too far into history, that the internal conflict in Ukraine would be resolved through peaceful, political means.

As we remember, three foreign ministers arrived in Kiev - from Poland, Germany, and France. They all assured that they would act as guarantors of these agreements. However, a day later, a coup d'état took place," he said.

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🗣 "I hate to say it, but I don't trust anyone. But we need guarantees," Putin said commenting of the probability of Ukraine peace talks

"I hate to say it, but I don't trust anyone. But we need guarantees. And the guarantees must be spelled out, they must be guarantees that would suit us and that we would believe in. This is what we are talking about. But right now it is probably too early to talk publicly about what it could be. But we will certainly not buy into some empty promises," he said in interview to Dmitry Kiselev, the Director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group.

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📹 Vladimir Putin said that the presence of foreign military contingents will not change the situation on the battlefield, but may lead to serious geopolitical consequences. He cited the example of Poland, which wants to regain Ukraine’s western territories, which it considers historically its own.

"... They dream about it, they want to reclaim territories they consider historically their own that were taken from them by the ‘father of nations,’ Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, and handed over to Ukraine. Of course they want them back. And if official Polish troops are deployed there, they are not going back. Then, other countries that lost their territories as a result of World War II may follow in their footsteps," he said.

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Japan fails to launch a solid-fuel rocket into space. Watch the moment Japan’s Space One Kairo rocket explodes just moments after the launch in an attempt to put satellite in the orbit.

The company tried to become the first Japanese firm to put a satellite in orbit.

📹 Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Emmanuel Macron's militaristic statements could be related to resentment over the loss of influence in Africa. However, he said that Russia did not interfere and did not expel France on purpose, but that it was African leaders themselves who wanted to cooperate with Moscow.

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🗣 Vladimir Putin warned that Russia has no red lines against countries that say they have no red lines against Russia

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📹 Vladimir Putin said there are constitutional problems in Germany and that Germans rightly fear a strike on the Crimean Bridge would violate the German constitution. He noted that Russia is closely monitoring the political situation in Germany.

"As far as Germany is concerned, there are constitutional problems there. They rightfully say: if these Taurus hit that part of the Crimean Bridge, which, of course, even according to their understanding, is Russian territory, then this is a violation of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. The fact is that Germany’s opposition is behaving even more aggressively. We'll see what they eventually will agree on, and we are following this closely," he said.

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🗣 Vladimir Putin said he does not understand why Finland decided to join NATO, as it had good relations with Russia. However, now the situation will change both in economic relations between the two countries and on the border, which will no longer be demilitarized.

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You want 'Sleepy Joe' to win, Trump told me - Putin

Vladimir Putin said that Russia does not interfere in US elections and is ready to work with any leader chosen by the American people. However, the situation ahead of the election is becoming increasingly uncivilized, and it is clear that the American political system cannot claim to be democratic in any sense of the word.

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Vladimir Putin says he has no historical duel with Biden

"Garry Kasparov wrote about this, that Biden told a story that he went to the Russian White House, to Prime Minister Putin and sought to dissuade him in every possible way from going for the presidency, otherwise he would organize an Arab Spring here. So Biden didn't like you very much back then. You have such a historical duel with him," Dmitry Kiselev said.

"To be honest, I didn't really pay much attention to it. There is no duel," Putin replied.

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📹 "The Ukrainian government sends its soldiers to certain death for political effect in the international arena and to obtain additional financial assistance." — Putin about the meat grinder into which Ukraine sent its soldiers near the village of Krynki.

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📹 "I don’t consider myself to be one who determines the fate of the entire world" — Putin.

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It comes as no surprise to Elon Musk that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to its existence

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📹 Answering a question on whether Russia is ready for a nuclear war, Vladimir Putin spoke about the development of capabilities and technologies of nuclear carriers and warheads as part of the arms race. However, he noted that this does not mean a nuclear war will happen tomorrow.

"In general, we have more or less parity in terms of carriers and warheads, but ours are more modern. Everybody knows this, the experts know this. However, this does not mean we should measure ourselves by the number of carriers and warheads. But it is necessary to know this. And those who need to know, I repeat, experts, specialists, and the military, they know it well. They are now setting tasks to increase this modernity and novelty, and they have a corresponding plan. We also know this. They are developing all their components. So are we," he said.

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