{"id":201173,"date":"2025-06-21T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201173\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:10:13","slug":"putin-says-ukraine-is-ours-and-threatens-nuclear-strike-showing-how-he-feels-about-trump-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201173\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says ‘Ukraine is ours’ and threatens nuclear strike – showing how he feels about Trump | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

He may have been speaking at an economic forum, but that didn\u2019t stop Vladimir Putin from issuing his most hawkish comments on Ukraine in a very long time.<\/p>\n

During a Q&A at Russia’s flagship investment event in St Petersburg, the Kremlin leader<\/a><\/strong> was asked what his end game was in the conflict.<\/p>\n

He replied: “I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one nation. In this sense, all of Ukraine<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>is ours.”<\/p>\n

The answer received rapturous applause from an auditorium full of fawning politicians and business figures.<\/p>\n

And there was more.<\/p>\n

“There is an old rule,” he said. “‘Where a Russian soldier sets foot, that is ours’.”<\/p>\n

In short, he was saying that he wants the whole lot.<\/p>\n

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\n Putin’s comments were his most hawkish in a long time. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

The comments came as a surprise because they are in sharp contrast to the Kremlin’s recent rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Ever since Donald Trump began his push for a peace deal, Moscow has adopted a softer tone, more conciliatory – in an apparent attempt to show Washington that it is interested in a settlement.<\/p>\n

But there was none of that kind of language here. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

The Russian president even, for the first time in months, threatened a nuclear strike on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Asked how Moscow would respond if Kyiv used a dirty bomb against Russian forces, he promised “catastrophic” consequences for his enemy.<\/p>\n

“This would be a colossal mistake on the part of those whom we call neo-Nazis on the territory of today’s Ukraine,” he said. “It could be their last mistake.<\/p>\n

“We always respond and respond in kind. Therefore, our response will be very tough.”<\/p>\n

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The Kremlin’s nuclear sabre-rattling was an almost weekly feature during the last days of the Biden administration, but the sabres stilled when Mr Trump came to power.<\/p>\n

But now, all of a sudden, he’s returned to it.<\/p>\n

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\n The aftermath of a Russian drone strike on Odesa, Ukraine. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

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It felt like a very deliberate message from Vladimir Putin that, despite peace talks, Russia<\/a><\/strong> has no intention of backing down, neither on the battlefield nor at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

I think it shows that Moscow is not too worried about upsetting Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The American leader appears to have distanced himself from trying to mediate the conflict, but still seems to be pursuing warmer ties with Moscow.<\/p>\n

So I think these comments also show how confident Putin is that things are going his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He may have been speaking at an economic forum, but that didn\u2019t stop Vladimir Putin from issuing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-201173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114718456428559126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}