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In a key speech, Vladimir Putin has said it is “impossible” to believe Russia would strike a NATO country – even as Moscow is accused of drone incursions. It comes as the US will reportedly share intelligence on long-range targets within Russia with Ukraine. Catch up below.
Thursday 2 October 2025 20:17, UK
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Vladimir Putin has finished speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, a key part of his year.
Catch up on his speech by scrolling through the past few posts below.
We’ll be back with the latest from the Ukraine war soon.
Putin continues to cast himself as an agent of peace in his foreign policy keynote speech.
There are lots of differences between Russia and the US, he says, adding, however, that this was “normal for big countries”.
He praises the approach of the Trump administration, that was making “point-blank statements without being hypocritical.”
The US president and his team are open about operating as rational actors acting in the interests of their country – just like Russia, Putin says.
One such Russian interest is the full restoration of relations with the US, he says.
Shortly after that, Putin wraps up his speech with the observation that “in today’s multipolar world, this harmony and the balance that I’ve talked about can only be restored through joint work”.
Donald Trump has notably slammed the UN as basically useless in his speech at the General Assembly in New York last week.
Putin delivers an alternative view: he says the UN is the “most representative” political forum in the world.
He acknowledges that there are “many issues”, leading some to say that it is paralysed and in crisis, he says.
“But we don’t have a better alternative to the UN,” he adds.
And he believes it is moving in the right direction, having “truly become multipolar” in recent years.
The countries that make up the global majority also form the political majority within the UN, Putin says.
Notably, Putin spares kind words for Donald Trump’s attempts to mediate between Israel and Hamas and instate a ceasefire in Gaza.
“We’re taking a closer look at the initiatives of President Trump,” he says. “We believe there could be light at the tunnel.”
Trump had on Monday presented a peace plan, which has already received the blessing of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
After diagnosing what he believes is European ill will, Putin goes on to threaten that Russia would not fail to respond to Europe’s “dangerous” militarisation.
“We must take that into considerations to sustain our defence and security,” Putin says.
He wonders whether announcements like Germany saying it would build Europe’s most powerful army were just rhetoric or could actually be put into action.
Russia would be closely watching these developments, he adds.
Russia’s response would be, “to put it mildly, quite convincing”, he says.
Next up, Putin is attacking European countries that are “whipping up hysteria”, trying to “recreate the well-known enemy they invented hundreds of years ago: Russia”.
While Putin says that Europe’s “ruling elites” claim that war with Russia is near, he calls this “nonsense” that is “impossible to believe”. It would run counter to Russia’s security interests, he argues.
And European people are sceptical as well, as they “don’t know what is so bad about Russia and why they should tighten their belts to counter Russia”, the president says.
Vladimir Putin notes that, in his view, international sanctions over the war in Ukraine have failed to subdue Russia, which “demonstrated the highest resilience”.
“We take pride in that, we are proud of Russia and our people and armed forces,” the president says.
This means that a “global equilibrium” cannot be established without Russia’s approval in a multipolar world, he says. 
Some are “still obstinate in their desire of inflicting a strategic defeat” on Moscow, however, he notes.
The motto of this year’s edition of the Valdai forum is “The Polycentric World: Instructions for Use”.
Accordingly, Vladimir Putin uses the opening remarks to give his perspective on what characterises a new multipolar world order.
In short, he believes it’s more creative, less pre-determined and much easier for national actors to lose their way and bearings – but it’s also more democratic.
It’s no secret that to Putin, a “multipolar world order” is mainly code for a world that is no longer dominated by just the US.
The Russian president is expected to share his thoughts on a new system of international relations in his speech at the Valdai Discussion Club, an annual discussion event in Russia established in 2004.
At a plenary session last year, he took the opportunity to accuse the West of “unprecedented geopolitical greed” following the end of the Cold War, blaming it for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
We’ll be bringing you key updates from his speech here, and you can watch live at the top of the page.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 185 prisoners of war from each side today, as we reported at 13.22.
New pictures show the emotional return of the released Ukrainians, who gathered at an unknown location in the country after the swap.
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