Vladimir Putin said this. Key points from the president’s remarks to the press:

🟩 Russia was ready to resume talks with Kyiv after the elections, but Ukraine tried to strike Moscow and attacked polling stations;

🟩 it was Kyiv that started attacks on civilian infrastructure; now it must feel the response;

🟩 the Ukrainian Armed Forces have no way to counter the Geran drones;

🟩 Russia’s response to Kyiv’s attacks was so painful and destructive that Kyiv requested a ceasefire;

🟩 all proposals for a peaceful settlement are “on the table,” but Russia still needs to consider what is in its interests;

🟩 EU elites are deceiving Europeans in order to keep investing in an aggressive Ukraine and continue using Ukrainians as cannon fodder;

🟩 Russia is not preparing for war with Europe — there are no motives or grounds for that;

🟩 statements about a Russian threat and the need to prepare for war with Russia are a deliberate inflation of the situation and a provocation;

🟩 Russia knows that the rights of Russian speakers are being violated in the Baltic states, but responds to this in the humanitarian sphere. The fact of “non-citizenship” there is nonsense;

🟩 Russia’s relations with the United States today have been reduced almost to zero;

🟩 a trip to the APEC summit will depend on the situation inside Russia.