„Putin is losing the war, and that is clear. (.) The perception is now so ambivalent that Putin is indeed losing the war at the moment, but he cannot lose. That is the idea, which is still floating around somewhere in France or Germany, which is very dangerous and wrong, the idea of justifying any dictator's madness on the grounds that there is no way he can lose. In fact, the attitude should be the opposite: he can and must lose. The West simply has to realise that it is not defending Ukraine, but itself, its entire civilisation“, Landsbergis told Žinių radijas on 29 September.