As TASS reports, the Russian President told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin about this, commenting on the “historical part” of his interview with Tucker Carlson.
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) this is an improvement in their tactical position, but for us it is fate, it is a matter of life and death. I wanted the people who would listen to this [the interview with Carlson] to understand it; whether it was successful or not is not for me to judge,” Putin emphasized.
Earlier, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev emphasized that Western countries failed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia at the hands of the Ukrainians.