{"id":202823,"date":"2025-06-21T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202823\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:16:11","slug":"putin-says-all-of-ukraine-is-ours-and-threatens-nuclear-strike-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202823\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ and threatens nuclear strike | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his insistence that Russia will not give up any occupied territory as part of peace negotiations with Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with Sky News Arabia, the Russian president said negotiations need to recognise “the will of the people who live in certain territories”.<\/p>\n

Mr Putin was referring to referendums held by Russian officials in 2022<\/a><\/strong> in four annexed regions of Ukraine, and in Crimea.<\/p>\n

Those referendums, which were described as “shams” by the UK’s foreign secretary at the time, saw all four regions vote to join Russia.<\/p>\n

“The will of the people is what [we] call democracy,” said Mr Putin.<\/p>\n

He said that he hopes Ukraine’s leadership will be “guided by national interests” in negotiations, rather than by the “interests of its sponsors”.<\/p>\n

Those sponsors, he said, “are not interested in ending the conflict, but in using Ukraine for their own selfish political purposes”.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Russian president told business leaders<\/a><\/strong> in St Petersburg: “I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one nation.<\/p>\n

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Putin pushes hard on Ukraine again<\/p>\n

“In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours.”<\/p>\n

He also threatened a nuclear strike on Ukraine for the first time in months, promising “catastrophic” consequences if Kyiv used a dirty bomb against Russian forces.<\/p>\n

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“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.<\/p>\n

“It could be their last mistake. We always respond and respond in kind. Therefore, our response will be very tough.<\/p>\n

“Ukraine deserves a better fate than being an instrument in the geopolitical struggle of those who strive for confrontation with the Russian Federation.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, Russia claimed to have captured a small village named Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.<\/p>\n

Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram saying that more than 200 Russian UAVs targeted the region on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was now in talks with Denmark, Norway, Germany, Canada, the UK and Lithuania to start joint weapons production.<\/p>\n

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He urged Kyiv’s partners to provide 0.25% of their GDP to finance the production of Ukraine’s weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his insistence that Russia will not give up any occupied territory as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-202823","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\/114722018677295362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202823","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=202823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}