Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there will only be peace with Ukraine when Russia accomplishes its goals.
He is having a big press meeting for the first time since he started a full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022.
Mr Putin talked to the Russian people on the phone while also answering questions from journalists.
The event did not happen last year.
The beginning of this marathon event is mostly about what Mr. Putin is calling the “special military operation in Ukraine”.
He first thinks about how important it is for Russia to be in control of its own country.
“Our country cannot exist without being in control. ” “It will just not be there,” he tells Channel One host Yekaterina Berezovskaya.
MrPutin thinks Russia’s economy is good during the war and then he starts talking about Ukraine.
‘Why is mobilization important. ‘
Mr Putin says that he believes peace will come to Ukraine once his goals are achieved. He says the goals are still the same: to remove Nazi influence, reduce military power, and stay neutral. These are the important topics he has focused on since the war began.
He said that about 486,000 people signed up to be contract soldiers and 300,000 people were called up last year.
“He said there are still many men ready to defend our country with weapons. ” In total, there will be almost 500,000 men by the end of this year. Why do we need to get people together and ready.
A secret US intelligence report said that about 315,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the war started. This is nearly 90% of Russia’s military at the beginning of the invasion.
A journalist from a Russian newspaper in Luhansk, Ukraine, asked Mr Putin about Ukraine’s recent control of the east side of the Dnipro river, which Russia had previously occupied.
President Putin says that Ukraine’s military had some success in a small area and was trying hard to get to Crimea. So, Russian forces decided to move back a little into the woods to protect their soldiers. He says that Kyiv wants to show the West that it needs more money for its military.
“I don’t understand why they are doing it. They are forcing their own people to get killed. It’s a dangerous mission for the Ukrainian forces. ” The reasons for this are political because Ukrainian leaders are asking other countries for help.
Mr Putin says that Russian forces are winning in Ukraine.
“At almost all the places where our soldiers are fighting, they are getting better,” he says during his long press conference.
There hasn’t been much action on the front line lately, but Russia is attacking two towns in the Donetsk region. The towns of Mariinka and Avdiivka.
Russia can keep making progress even though there are sanctions against it.
Mr Putin also talks about how Russia gets along with the United States and the European Union.
He says the US is a big country but says it does bad things by taking over other countries. He asks America to be polite to other people and countries. He also says Russia is willing to fix its relationship with America once this happens.
While the leader of Russia is talking, the Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a press meeting in Brussels and says that if Putin wins in Ukraine, he may continue to be aggressive in other places too.
Mr Putin says Russia can still make progress even though it’s facing economic punishments and being left out by other countries because it invaded Ukraine.
Russians sent more than two million questions to Mr.
Mr Putin spends up to four hours answering questions during his phone-ins, while Russian and international journalists also ask him lots of questions at the same time.