Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to engage in peace talks with Ukraine, but those who deny the possibility of talks and try to prolong the ongoing conflict will only make the situation worse.

President Putin has challenged those who say Russia has lost its grip on the Ukraine conflict can try and defeat us on the battlefield. He also said that those who think we are loosing our grip should know that we haven’t started anything yet.

Putin said it is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people that the West is willing to fight till the last Ukrainian. He also said that NATO had jeopardized Russia’s consistent efforts to create a fair international security system .

He said the West’s goal of provoking a conflict between Russia and Ukraine had clearly succeeded, but that Moscow’s launch of a military operation in Ukraine was a defeat of the West. He also said that the beginning of this war is the beginning of the complete dissolution of the American world order.