Putin: I'm pretty much doing everything right, you know

“What is happening today is not pleasant. But all the same, (if Russia hadn’t attacked on February) we would have been in the same situation, only the conditions would have been worse for us,” Putin told reporters after a summit in the capital of Kazakhstan.

“So we’re doing everything right,” he insisted.

Nearly eight months into Moscow’s war, Ukraine’s emboldened military, which is clawing back territory in the east as well as in the south, was celebrating Defender’s Day. Meanwhile a United Nations envoy alleged Russian forces were using rape as a weapon.