He stated this during a meeting with the mother of an occupier who died in a foreign country.
"We are really waiting for victory… But we must go all the way, we must not give in to anyone", - the woman said.
"We are not going to do that. We must choose a peace option that suits us and ensures long-term historical stability for our country. We do not need anything that belongs to others, but we will not give up what is ours", - the russian dictator replied, without mentioning that Ukraine has never attacked russia and has been defending its territorial integrity for 3 years.
As previously reported, Donald Trump repeatedly claims that putin wants peace and that the ceasefire option proposed by the U.S. president involves mutual concessions from both sides.