We have significant losses of troops and it is a huge tragedy for us. - Dmitry Peskov

Ukraine was heavily militarized at the time of the start of the [special military operation]. And, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin said yesterday, one of the tasks was the demilitarization of Ukraine. In fact, this task has been largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses weapons systems supplied to it by Western countries.

Waging war is a completely different thing. It entails total destruction of infrastructure, complete destruction of cities. We’re not doing that.

Our presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy... Mr. Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90% of the vote.