🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin answered a media question, concluding the first day of his working visit to India (September 11, 2026)

Key points:

• All that is now happening across Europe as a whole is the consequence of systemic errors committed by the so‑called West, or, to be more precise, by the globalist circles of the West, in the political, security and economic spheres.

• We were included in the G8. Yet, this did not constitute full‑fledged membership.

• As for the economic sphere, the most pressing issue at present is, naturally, energy. How, in fact, is the price of gas formed on the European exchanges? It is not determined by producers, but by exchange traders. They believe that today, it is more advantageous to extract gas from storage that was purchased at lower prices, and as for tomorrow – well, we’ll see. This will result in prices rising not just to 1,000, but to 1,500 [dollars or euros per 1,000 cubic metres].

• In the security sphere, the [systemic error of the West] has taken the form of attempts to put pressure on the Russian Federation, initially through the use of terrorists in the Caucasus and separatists, then via other methods, and now – by means of the neo‑Nazi regime in Ukraine. This process continues unabated.

• Yet today’s European elites adhere to a different perspective. They now seek to frighten their populations with a mythical Russian threat, purportedly dating back to the Soviet era. But such a threat does not exist, and never has. 👉 We do not threaten, nor do we intend to threaten, European countries.

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