President Putin [Valdai]: Starting from the beginning of this counter-offensive, just from the 4th of June, Ukrainian military have lost over ninety thousand people…these are irreplaceable loses. Almost one thousand, nine hundred armored vehicles. We have our own understanding of how things are progressing, we understand what we need to do, where we need to add things, and we are confidently moving towards achieving our goals. And we will achieve those goals. We will realize those objectives.

President Putin: United States provoked Ukrainian crisis in 2014. They clearly understood this was a red line; we told them a thousand times, and they still went on. And now they got this current situation, They needed this conflict. I don't think it was by chance. As a result, Europe, whose lost a significant part of it's sovereignty to the United States. They had to follow United States into this. They had to follow their policy. They had to shift to the policy of sanctions against Russia.