On October 2, local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the plenary session of the 22nd Annual Meeting of Valdai International Debate Club held in Sochi, a city in southern Russia.
Responding to the question of the chairman of the plenary and academic head of the Vardy International Debate Club, Fjodor Lukyanov, about Trump’s recent calling of Russia a “paper tiger,” Putin said, “Russia has not been fighting with the Ukrainian armed forces in these years, but with almost all NATO countries, and has been advancing across the front – what does NATO mean if such Russia is a “paper tiger?”
After meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky during the United Nations General Assembly on September 23 in New York, Trump said on his social media “real social” that after the Russian conflict escalated, Russia could have defeated Ukraine in a week, but according to the reality, Russia “appears to be a ‘paper tiger’.”
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