“People are afraid to sleep at night… Where is the limit of this hardship, when the people will say, ‘Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], we have to respond! I don’t know, but I think it is very close. Very close. Right now, you are playing with fire.”

"Sometimes it seems to me that you people in Europe have really all gone a little crazy. Please tell me, during these five years, has a single Russian missile hit Europe?

Has a single Russian tank been sent anywhere into Europe?

Has a single Russian combat aircraft flown anywhere into Europe?

(No, no, no.)

And how many European missiles, tanks, and aircraft have been sent into, and hit, Russia in all this time? Thousands.

And after that, you're asking me about Russia's responsibility? Russia has not laid a finger on Europe. It is Europe that is sending its tanks, aircraft, missiles and drones into Russia, causing a transportation crisis, a gasoline crisis in Russia, and so on..."