Russian President Vladimir Putin's army has faced a long series of humiliating defeats over the past year, even after the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of reservists last September
President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of using the Ukraine conflict to"be done" with Russia, said traitors must be punished, and proclaimed that Moscow had successfully withstood Western sanctions.
He, however, did not detail his strategy to win on the ground in Ukraine, nor did he elaborate on Russian military losses - which the West and Ukraine say are huge. "Those who have embarked on the path of betrayal of Russia must be held accountable under the law," Mr Putin said.Since the beginning of the offensive, the Russian government has cracked down hard on what little remained of the opposition.Mr Putin, who frequently decries Western gender and sexual freedoms as an existential danger, also said paedophilia had become the norm in the West.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed, and Mr Putin now says Russia is locked in an existential battle with an arrogant West which he says wants to carve up Russia and steal its vast natural resources. "This was a war of choice. Putin chose to fight it. He could have chosen not to. And he can choose even now to end it, to go home," Sullivan said.
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