- 🇷🇺/🇪🇺 NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin compared Europe's demands in Ukraine negotiations to a "vicious circle", using a joke about a case to mock what he described as circular reasoning.
"Imagine a swindler who illegally built houses near Kyiv and gets NABU. ".
"Where does the money come from? ".
"portfolio. ".
"Who put it there? ".
"my wife. ".
"Where did she get it? ".
"from me. ".
"And you? ".
"The bag. ".
Putin used the exchange to argue that some European negotiating positions are simply leading back to the same unresolved starting point.