Putin swipes back at Trump for calling Russia a ‘paper tiger’

By Vladimir Soldatkin

Sochı, Russia (Reuters) -This president Vladimir Putin withdrew US President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Russia as “paper tiger” and he would quickly respond if he thought Moscow had provoked Europe.

Previously, Kiev said that he had to give up the lands to make peace with Moscow, and he sharply reversed his discourse last week and said that Ukraine could recover all regions from Russia and label Moscow as “paper tiger”. He repeated the line this week.

Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Group in Sochi Black Sea Facility, Putin said that Russian forces are moving on the whole front in Ukraine and that almost the US -led NATO alliance fought against Russia.

Putin said, “A paper tiger. Then what’s coming? Go and take care of this article tiger, Put Putin said. “Well, if we fight all the NATO block, we move, we’re moving, and we trust ourselves, and we’re a ‘paper tiger’, then what is NATO itself?”

“If there is still a desire to compete with us in the military field, feel free, let them try.” He said. “Russia’s counter measures will not take long.”

“Sleep in a cold, calmly,” says Putin to NATO

NATO members said that Ukraine has provided intelligence, weapons and training and that Russia has broke what she had thrown as a hysteria about their plans to attack a NATO member whom Russia rejected as “impossible to believe”.

Putin, “I just want to say: Cool, sleep calmly and pay attention to your own problems. Just take a look at the streets of European cities.” He said.

Putin said that Ukraine’s armed forces were a great manpower and lack of desertion and that Russia is enough military. He suggested that Kiev had to end the war.

Russia, almost all of the province of Luhansk, approximately 81% of the Donetsk region, and both Zaporizhzhia and about 75% of Kherson regions, he said. Moscow claimed that he annexed four regions in 2022, and Ukraine would not end the war until they were completely withdrawn from them.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Reuters in Moscow; by Lucy Papachristou;