Vladimir Putin promised to 'finish' Ukraine yesterday while on board a brand new Russian nuclear submarine during a visit to a Arctic marine base.
Speaking with submarines, Putin said self -satisfied: 'Not long ago I said we would grind [Ukraine] DOWN – Now it seems that we finish them.
He also mocked the state of the British economy and forces after Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron revealed yesterday that they would use an Anglo-French 'reassurance' in Ukraine after a cease-fire.
'[Britain] jumps on us, behaves aggressively … But their economy is, I think, in ninth or tenth place in the world, “the Russian president grinned.
'Hence the armed forces – what is it, 170,000 or 180,000? Those are all forces of the UK! '
The comments of the Kremlin chef reflect his growing confidence in the fate of his war in Ukraine, not least because the United States – previously one of the most consistent allies of KYIV – now keep Volodymyr Zensky about a barrel.
The newest version of President Donald Trump's most acclaimed minerals, initially framed as a way for Ukraine to obtain security guarantees from Washington, has been described by experts as 'an expropriation document' and compared to 'holding a gun' at the head of Zelensky.
Professor Alan Riley, an expert in the field of energy council on the Atlantic Council, said that the deal was different from everything he had ever seen after he had shown a copy of the last text of the Telegraph.
A United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund would keep the natural resources of Ukraine under control, including critical minerals and natural gas. Three of the five board members of the new fund would be chosen by the US and Washington, would enjoy the first right of refusal on all projects.
The US would also have the authority to investigate the books and bills of each Ukrainian ministry or agency when it wants.
“There are no guarantees, no defense clauses, the US does not set up anything,” said Riley.
“The Americans can walk away, the Ukrainians can't do that. I've never seen anything like that. '
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets submarines while visiting the Russian nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk (project 885m Yasen-M) in the Poortstad van Murmansk on March 27, 2025
Sailors are in line during a ceremony such as Russian President Vladimir Putin a nuclear powered submarine Arkhangelsk in Murmansk, Russia visits March 27, 2025
Vladimir Putin promised to 'finish' Ukraine while he was on board a brand new Russian nuclear submarine yesterday during a visit to a North Pole -Marine base
Russian Drones again met the Ukrainian port city of Odesa at night
A fireman tries to extinguish a fire in Odesa
The newest copy of the proposed mineral deal of America with Ukraine would hand over Washington unprecedented control over the sale of the resources of the nation torn by war
Putin's remarks to submarines came yesterday when he explored the depths of the submarine Arkhangelsk, named after the Russian city.
He also officially launched a new nuclear submarine – called the 'Perm' to a city in the Ual Mountains – from the port of Murmansk.
The Perm is the sixth submarine in the Russian Yasen and Yasen-M classes built by the Sevmash shipyard near Murmansk-But It is assumed that it is the first submarine of Russia to wear Hypersonic Zirkon rocket-rackets.
These terrifying projectiles have a reported range of 900 kilometers (560 miles) and their speed makes them very difficult to defend against.
In the meantime, the armed forces of Russia continued to focus on goals in Ukraine with drone attacks at night, even if Ukraine and the US are partially ceasing -the -fires urge to prevent further attacks on energy -infrastructure and shipping assets of the Black Sea.
The general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine reported early this morning: 'The Russian invaders still committed a war crime, with the help of Shahed Drones, [and] Poltava attacked en masse.
“They deliberately affect civil infrastructure, housing developments and administrative buildings of oil and gas industry companies.”
In the Kharkiv region, Putin Zolochiv's military machine with four kamikaze – drones – destroyed a civil house and damage ten more.
Two strikes were also focused on the Zolochiv Hospital and a football field that injured several people.
The Port City of Odesa van de Zwarte Zee also suffered night strikes, together with goals in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Since the US and Ukraine corresponded to a partially ceasefire after conversations in Saudi Arabia, Putin said that he would only observe the conditions if Western countries would increase part of their long-term economic sanctions to Moscow.
He called Zensky to be driven out as President of Ukraine and that the government is being replaced by an internationally guided interim administration to hold elections.
And he is also against a Franco-British plan to station a European peace force in Ukraine to monitor a future peace agreement.
British and French diplomats and Defense Chefs will go to Ukraine in the coming days to discuss what Macron Styles rises as a 'reassuring force'.
“These reassurance troops are a British-French proposition desired by Ukraine,” Macron announced that yesterday, adding the troops would not be used in front lines, but instead in 'strategic areas' around Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a nuclear powered submarine Arkhangelsk, in Murmansk, Russia March 27, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a launch ceremony of a nuclear submarine called Perm, equipped with hypersonic Zircon, while he visits a nuclear powered submarine Arkhangelsk in Murmansk, Russia 27, 2025
British soldiers practice a trench attack on February 17, 2025, in Smardan, Romania
Keir Starmer and Ukraine's President Volodyymyr Zensky met each other in the home of the British ambassador after the Ukrainian top in Paris
The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a press conference after a meeting with the President of Ukraine on the sidelines of a top for 'Coalition of the Willing' at the British Embassy in Paris, on March 27, 2025
While European leaders work to reassure Ukraine, their allies will come to defense, the US will continue to push Kyiv to sign a very exploiting minerals deal.
If signed in its current form, the deal would see that the United States had handed control of the mineral wealth and infrastructure of Ukraine, linked to natural resources – an agreement that is unparalleled in the history of modern diplomacy.
In addition, the plan – which was obtained by the Telegraph – Hands America unprecedented control over the sale of the nation torn by war, including a veto sale to China or limiting the sale to Europe.
KYIV would not receive security guarantees in exchange.
This deal runs parallel with conversations between Russia and America to restore West -Siberian gas flows to Europe in large quantities.
The new life revived Russia-Europe gas trade would flow through the network of Ukraine, and then through the Baltic once the sabotaged Nord streams have been recovered.
Professor Riley said about the deal: 'It is not compatible with EU membership, and perhaps that is part of the goal.
“I have to wonder if the real intention might not be to force Zensky to reject it.”
