Putin Says Russia "Barely" Started in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated, on Thursday, that Moscow had barely gotten started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield.

Putin affirmed that the West hadn’t succeeded in sowing discord or wreaking havoc in Russia, adding that it wouldn’t be able to do so in the future.

"Obviously, they were trying not only to hit the Russian economy harder. Their goal was to sow discord and wreak havoc in our society, to demoralize people," the Russian leader noted. "But they miscalculated there: It did happen, and I'm sure it won't."

During a meeting with the leadership of the State Duma, he stressed that the policy of the parliament is based on the will of the Russian people, indicating that they are on the right side of history.

"They should have understood that they had already lost from the very onset of our special military operation because its beginning also indicates the beginning of a cardinal dismantling of the world order US-style, this is the beginning of a shift from the US’ liberal globalist egocentrism to a truly multipolar world," he said.

In addition, Putin highlighted that such a world is based "not on some selfish rules somebody made up for themselves that have nothing behind them except for the aspiration for hegemony, not on hypocritical double standards but on international law, the genuine sovereignty of peoples and civilizations, on their will to follow their historical fate, their values and traditions, to build cooperation based on democracy, justice and equality.".