Ukraine Conflict Would End In Months Without Western Backing: Putin

Last Updated:January 28, 2025, 23:59 IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin said everything would be over in a month and a half or two

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Reuters Image)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the nearly three-year conflict in Ukraine would end in “two months" or less if the West stopped supporting Kyiv.

“They will not exist for a month if the money and, in a broad sense, the bullets run out. Everything would be over in a month and a half or two," Putin told a reporter from Russian state TV.

Putin said talks with Ukraine were possible but not with its President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he deemed “illegitimate".

“If he wants to participate in the negotiations, I will allocate people to take part in the negotiations," Putin said, saying that Zelensky was “illegitimate" because his presidential term had expired during martial law.

Moscow, Russia

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