it will come to an end sooner or later. plenty more that we ve been hearing from putin. yet again of putin questioned ukraine s very identity by that ukrainians and russians were one people. he questioned ukraine s territorial integrity, claiming that huge swathes of south eastern ukraine actually belonged to russia. he painted a very rosy picture of how things were going for his forces and said that the situation was improving for them and for ukraine he described the situation as a tragedy. he also hinted at difficulties experienced in terms of logistics supplying his troops in ukraine and he said not everything was being delivered on time and he also hinted that russia was successful in circumventing western sanctions saying that some of the war supplies were being purchased from abroad privately. he is sounding as defiant as ever, saying russia s goals in ukraine remained unchanged, those are the same goals that he announced before the start of the invasion last year with