Putin shows no sign of stopping the war as Russia doubles down on Ukraine

The Kremlin has made no secret of the fact it wants European states to slash their military and financial backing for Ukraine: the kind of support Moscow says is prolonging the war - or, rather, getting in the way of a Russian victory." That, indeed, has been the official Russian stance for some time: that what is happening in Ukraine amounts to a European war on Russia."If you mean the destruction of infrastructure used by a Nazi regime backed by the West to wage war on the Russian Federation, then we are resorting to brute force to eliminate this direct threat to us."