Western officials will clear the path for Russia’s victory in the war in Ukraine by cutting military aid for the embattled nation, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“These freebies may end one day — in fact, they are already coming to an end little by little,” Putin said during a marathon question-and-answer session. “We have also destroyed almost 2,300 armored vehicles of various types. This is what is called demilitarization.”
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Putin aired that bullish boast just days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the United States to renew his appeal for additional military aid as the existing funding runs out. With Congress still deadlocked over approving the assistance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team cited Putin’s comments as proof that the Russian leader has calculated he “could…