Nobody cares about Ukraine. We are not waving a nuclear baton. Have you come up with the idea that Russia wants to attack NATO? Have you completely lost your mind? Putin spent three hours answering questions from foreign journalists. Here is what he said — a short summary from Meduza. ______ We don’t care who will be the president of the United States. We have always perceived the ridiculous accusations against Trump as an element of domestic political struggle. But he began to introduce massive sanctions against Russia and withdrew from the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty). The United States is burning its leadership in democracy at the root. If the new administration [of the White House] focuses on domestic issues, and does not pursue the goals of global liberalism, then there may be changes both in the attitude to Russia and in the conflict in Ukraine. But no one cares about Ukraine, what interests them is the greatness of the United States. They are not fighting for Ukraine and do not want to allow Russia to succeed — they believe that [otherwise] they will be harmed. Everyone thinks that Russia started the war, but no one wants to remember how this tragedy began. It started with a coup d'état. The heads of the Foreign Ministries of France, Poland and Germany came to Kyiv and signed documents that the crisis should be ended peacefully. Why didn't the German leadership demand that those people in Ukraine return to the legal field? They are to blame for what happened, along with the forces in the United States, who provoked the seizure of power in an unconstitutional way. Russia made every effort. Agreements were signed in Minsk, but we were simply led by the nose. When German tanks appeared in Ukraine, it caused a moral and ethical shock in Russia. Now they say that missiles will appear - this finally destroys Russian-German relations. As a rule, no one ever talks about the number of casualties. Our losses are several times less than on the Ukrainian side. According to our calculations, the Armed Forces of Ukraine loses 50 thousand soldiers per month, and mobilization [in Ukraine] only covers the losses. I think that the US administration will force today's leadership to lower the mobilization age to 18, and then it will get rid of Zelensky. The Ukrainian military is technologically incapable of carrying out a strike [with precision weapons] themselves. This is decided only by those who supply the weapons. We have no illusions about this. We will improve our air defense systems. If someone thinks it is possible to supply such weapons to strike our territory, why don’t we have the right to supply our weapons of the same class to those regions where strikes will be carried out on sensitive objects of countries that do this against Russia? If we see that [Western] countries are being drawn into a war against us, we reserve the right to act in a similar way, this is the path to very serious problems. What needs to be done to stop the hostilities? I can say what I said to Biden: stop supplying weapons. The hostilities will stop within two, maximum three months. We agreed with Ukraine at the end of 2022. And Ukraine has written that it is not a member of NATO, but in such a way that it is very close to the NATO charter. I said that we need to think about this. The same applied to Russia's interests - the neutral status of Ukraine and denazification. And I was surprised when they started asking me what it was. And this is a legislative ban on Nazi propaganda. Why did Johnson come to Kyiv and throw these agreements in the trash? They are constantly trying to accuse us of waving a nuclear baton. Let's not only not bring it to use, but even to the threat of use. For some reason, the West believes that Russia will never use it. We have a nuclear doctrine: if someone's actions threaten our sovereignty and territorial integrity, we consider it possible to use all the means at our disposal. How can we negotiate [with Ukraine] today? The current leadership decided not to go to the elections. It is written in the Constitution that the powers of the president are transferred to parliament, but it is not written that they are extended. And with whom to sign an agreement? But everything can be agreed upon. There is no need to create an image of an enemy from Russia. You are harming yourself by doing this. You've come up with the idea that Russia wants to attack NATO. Are you completely nuts? Dumb as a table? Who came up with this? This is nonsense, complete nonsense. It would be nonsense if it weren't designed to fool our own population. To say: we must urgently arm ourselves, send weapons to Ukraine. But in reality, this is being done to maintain our own imperial position and greatness. [ Official channel of the AKIpress News Agency ] Watch and read us: Our website: www.akipress.org Instagram: instagram.com/akipress Facebook: facebook.com/akipress Twitter: twitter.com/a