Russia is a bear and “there’s nothing paper about it”, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Wednesday morning, insisting its war against Ukraine is “not aimless” and that economic factors and a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must have influenced U.S. President Donald Trump’s stance.

Russia declined to respond to President Trump’s latest remarks on the progress of the Ukraine War, where he encouraged Kyiv to keep fighting to retake its own territory and — he implied — possibly even capture some Russian land on Tuesday, stating the remarks came too late into the night Moscow time to be dealt with immediately.

Nevertheless, Vladimir Putin’s personal spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave a wide-ranging interview to Russian state radio on Wednesday morning, where he articu

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