Ipse by Tag - Vladimir Putin

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“They now want to use Christmas as a cover, albeit briefly, to stop the advances of our boys in Donbas and bring equipment, ammunition and mobilised troops closer to our positions. What will that give them? Only yet another increase in their total losses. The whole world knows how the Kremlin uses interruptions in the war to continue the war with new strength.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

05 Jan 2023 3 2

Edgars Rinkēvičs

Inserted 1 year ago

“We have seen that negotiations and peace agreements with Russia simply do not work. Russia has no need for them. If Russia feels it is losing Ukraine and that the regime of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is losing the confidence of global public opinion and of Russian public opinion, then I think they will sit down at the negotiating table. But at the same time, if an agreement is signed that is a half measure and does not include some sort of strict control over its implementation, then I no longer have any illusions the Russian Federation would abide by it.”

Rferl

Latvian foreign minister

23 Oct 2022 3 4

Yuri Fyodorov

Inserted 1 year ago

“He [Vladimir Putin] is bluffing right now. But what will happen in a week or a month from now is difficult to say - when he understands the war is lost.”

Aljazeera

Military analyst based in Prague

04 Oct 2022 5 1

Tatiana Stanovaya

Inserted 1 year ago

“The way that Putin speaks about Ukraine, it is clear that for him this is an existential problem. For him, if Russia doesn't win in Ukraine, there won't be a Russia. Russia is demonstrating that it is ready to use any means at its disposal to achieve its strategic goals. Including nuclear weapons.”

Theguardian

Founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik

30 Sep 2022 4 3

Scott Berrier

Inserted 1 year ago

“We're coming to a point right now where I think Putin is going to have to revise what his objectives are for this operation. It's pretty clear right now that he's … not going to be able to do what he initially intended to do. The Russians planned for an occupation, not necessarily an invasion, and that has set them back. He's [Vladimir Putin] coming to a decision point. What that decision will be we don't know. But that will largely drive how long this conflict lasts.”

Aljazeera

Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency

16 Sep 2022 3 2

Bobo Lo

Inserted 1 year ago

“They cheer-lead on behalf of each other, offering moral and political support to their partner when their interests align. But China and Russia are strategically autonomous actors, whose influence on each other's behaviour is limited and indirect at best. And rather than being propelled into a new orbit of cooperation, the long-term outlook for the Russia-China relationship is not promising. The Xi and Putin relationship is primarily based on the self-interests of two strategically autonomous powers and a fundamental difference is that China is invested in global order. China wishes to play a more dominant role, but it does not wish to demolish that order. Putin, however, is focused on disruptive power and a complete overthrow of the international system. That is why Putin has resorted so readily to military force - in Georgia, Syria, Ukraine and, more covertly, in Iraq, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic. Russia, but not China, has invested in the value of waging war. He [Putin] and those around him identify Russia's ability and will to wage war as a comparative advantage that few others, apart from the United States, possess.”

Aljazeera

Non-resident fellow at Australia’s think-tank the Lowy Institute

15 Sep 2022 (approx) 4 3

António Guterres

Inserted 1 year ago

“I have the feeling we are still far away from peace. I would be lying if I would say it could happen soon. I have no illusion; at the present moment the chances of a peace deal are minimal. Even a ceasefire is not in sight.”

Aljazeera

Secretary-general of the United Nations

14 Sep 2022 3 2

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 1 year ago

“Sadly, I cannot tell you that the impression has grown that it was a mistake to begin this war. And there was no indication that new attitudes are emerging.”

Aljazeera

Chancellor of Germany

14 Sep 2022 2 4

Tarik Oguzlu

Inserted 1 year ago

“I don't think that the Russian explanation on this particular issue [Vladimir Putin claiming that almost all the Ukrainian grain shipped under a UN-backed deal to ease a global food crisis is reaching rich European nations] reflects the reality on the ground. I think the Russians are feeling a growing exposure to Ukrainian attacks in recent days, and also the Europeans are increasing pressure on Russia, so I think the Russian leadership might have decided to find a way to inflict damage [given] this growing assault. We should see [this] as part of a larger geopolitical game. It's part of a tit for tat [situation]. I find the idea that the Ukrainian ships are targeting nations other than the ones in the Global South somehow fabricated.”

Aljazeera

Professor of international relations at Istanbul Aydin University

08 Sep 2022 7 2

Victoria Maladaeva

Inserted 1 year ago

“We can't determine our own politics - if we had a real federation, the head of our republic could say no, Buryats won't fight in this criminal war. But he keeps providing cannon fodder for Putin. Buryatia, like the other ethnic republics, is governed by the colonial policies of Moscow. Our languages and history are disappearing off the face of the Earth, while Moscow sucks all the money and resources out of the provinces. Moscow is a beautiful city but it's such a facade of all of Russia, because if you go just a little further, the houses are falling apart, there are no roads, there's no work. Contractors [soldiers] and their families are always writing to us, saying that they don't want to fight, but there are many obstacles along the way. Some of them are being held back on occupied territories [of Ukraine], and they're pressured, threatened, afraid they'll be sent to the front line to be killed. When they submit their refusal, they're asked 'Who will defend the motherland?' They reply if someone attacks their motherland they'll defend it, but they see no motherland in Ukraine. We know we can't influence Vladimir Putin directly, but the less cannon fodder he has at his disposal, the sooner this war will end.”

Aljazeera

Leader of the Free Buryatia Foundation

02 Aug 2022 4 2

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Russian President must accept that there is a community of law-based democracies in his neighbourhood that is growing ever closer together. He clearly fears the spark of democracy spreading to his country.”

Reuters

Chancellor of Germany

20 Jun 2022 5 2

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 year ago

“I told him [Putin ] that he made a historic and fundamental error for his people, for himself and for history. I think he has isolated himself. Isolating oneself is one thing, but being able to get out of it is a difficult path.”

Aljazeera

President of France

03 Jun 2022 5 4

Leonid Ragozin

Inserted 1 year ago

“If the war ends with Russia occupying all of Luhansk and Donetsk plus retaining control of the land corridor to Crimea, it will be more than enough for Putin to declare a spotless victory. But to cement his victory, the Russian leader will need to convince Ukraine to agree to a truce under such conditions, and that's a totally different story. Ukraine and its Western allies are hoping that under pressure from crippling sanctions Russia will eventually exhaust its military and economic potential and lose the battle.”

Aljazeera

Freelance journalist based in Riga

24 May 2022 8 2

Robert Person

Inserted 1 year ago

“In practical terms, the end of the siege at Azovstal does not alter the trajectory of the war very much. In controlling the rest of Mariupol, which Russia has done for several weeks now, the Kremlin already had its land bridge to Crimea. Azovstal doesn't really tip the balance there. Although Putin will squeeze maximum domestic propaganda value out of capture of Mariupol, it is a Pyrrhic victory that comes at enormous cost. The protracted fight for the city has drained Russia's military of significant manpower, weapons, and equipment.”

Rferl

Associate professor of international relations at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point

18 May 2022 5 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“I am ready to talk to Putin, but only to him. Without any of his intermediaries. And in the framework of dialogue, not ultimatums. The chance such discussions could be held is complicated. It is because every day small towns are being de-occupied, and we see the traces of harassment, torture, executions left by the Russian military. That is why the possibility of talks gets complicated.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

12 May 2022 6 3

William Burns

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think he's [Vladimir Putin] in a frame of mind in which he doesn't believe he can afford to lose. I think he's convinced right now that doubling down still will enable him to make progress. We don't see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons. Given the kind of sabre-rattling that … we've heard from the Russian leadership, we can't take lightly those possibilities. So we stay very sharply focused as an intelligence service … on those possibilities at a moment when the stakes are very high for Russia.”

Aljazeera

CIA Director

07 May 2022 3 3

Mathieu Boulege

Inserted 2 years ago

“Putin will not admit defeat. The Kremlin will not compromise. Right before May 9 there will be a big moment for Putin to say, mission accomplished, this is my version of history. This is my legacy. It needs to be presented as a mission accomplished. Forget about taking over Kyiv. We've flattened Mariupol, we've liberated more parts of Donbas. Maybe they will announce a republic in Kherson.”

Aljazeera

Senior research fellow at the Chatham House think tank in London

06 May 2022 6 3

Margarita Konaev

Inserted 2 years ago

“He [Vladimir Putin] will insist that the US and NATO are willing to risk continued violence and economic downturn around the world just to humiliate Russia and limit its power in the international order. Since it is May 9, they will evoke the Great Patriotic War and portray this moment as another when the Russian people must be steadfast and heroic while under attack. Putin's proven himself quite capable of twisting truths and reorganising the narrative in a way that might seem logically unsound but resonates nonetheless. It's not his first rodeo or Russia's with propaganda.”

Aljazeera

Research fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology

06 May 2022 6 3

Curtis Michael Scaparrotti

Inserted 2 years ago

“Putin now has routinely rattled the nuclear saber, and he continues to do so, frankly, because I think he knows that...he has reduced his conventional advantage that he actually had prior to the 24th of February, and so this is his assurance. And I think we should expect that, but we shouldn't blink.”

Rferl

Retired U.S. Army General and former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe

28 Apr 2022 4 2

Hu Qingxin

Inserted 2 years ago

“A common view is that while the war is bad, we must support Russia in this battle to defend China's interests. Because without Russia to hold up the West, China will be the next target. Such a view has not been formed in a day but instilled over time. State media might have fed the information, but the public sentiment has always been there. People worship Putin, because he is aligned with Xi Jinping. They share the same strongman image and governance style.”

Aljazeera

Media veteran now based in Hong Kong

06 Apr 2022 5 4

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“He [Vladimir Putin] is bluffing right now. But what will happen in a week or a month from now is difficult to say - when he understands the war is lost.”

“I have the feeling we are still far away from peace. I would be lying if I would say it could happen soon. I have no illusion; at the present moment the chances of a peace deal are minimal. Even a ceasefire is not in sight.”

“Sadly, I cannot tell you that the impression has grown that it was a mistake to begin this war. And there was no indication that new attitudes are emerging.”

“The Russian President must accept that there is a community of law-based democracies in his neighbourhood that is growing ever closer together. He clearly fears the spark of democracy spreading to his country.”

“I told him [Putin ] that he made a historic and fundamental error for his people, for himself and for history. I think he has isolated himself. Isolating oneself is one thing, but being able to get out of it is a difficult path.”

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