President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons.

With the President intent on delivering a speedy end to the war, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are competing to make each other the subject of his ire.

The immediate past U.S. President, Joe Biden, said his successor Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia is a form of modern-day appeasement that will never satisfy Moscow. Biden,