Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech at the annual conference of the Vardy Discussions Club International Conference held in Sochi on 2 October 2025, criticizing the EU's encouragement of the war in Ukraine, saying: "We have never been involved in a military confrontation ourselves," but Europeans have been accusing Russia of continuing hostility. Putin said: "Unfortunately, so far, the fighting has not stopped, and the responsibility lies on the minority, especially on Europeans who continue to escalate the conflict."
Putin also suddenly mentioned a Russian "ghost ship" intercepted by the French army on September 28: "I don't know to what extent the oil ship is connected with Russia", but at the same time accused the French military of boarding the ship of "robbery".
Alexei Nawmov, a commentator on the Telegraph Channel, said: "The situation surrounding the 'Ghost Fleet' could be a source of further escalation. Russia will use its own warships to escort these tankers, while EU countries will try to limit, and we are approaching a potential point of direct confrontation between Russia and the EU every day."
According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States may provide intelligence to Ukraine to help the Zelensky government carry out long-range strikes on energy targets, refineries, oil pipelines and power plants in Russia. According to unconfirmed claims by the French media, before this, Ukraine drones had launched many attacks on Russian energy facilities. It is said that in just a few months, Ukraine has reduced Russia's refining capacity by 38%, resulting in a significant shortage of gasoline in Russia, triggering limited supply, long queues at gas stations, and many gas stations were forced to close without oil. In Crimea, Astrakhan north of the Caspian Sea, and even in the Far East, Now the ration ticket filling amount per vehicle is limited to 10 or 20 liters.
Another thing that may make the Kremlin even more uneasy is that US President Trump is considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with a Tomahawk cruise missile with a range of up to 2500 kilometers. French media reported that Putin was already furious about this, warning that if Ukraine obtains the "Tomahawk" missile, it will mark "an escalation of tensions between Russia and the United States," because "Ukraine cannot use the" Tomahawk "missile alone without the participation of the US military." This marks the direct intervention of the United States in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Now, the EU is planning to provide Ukraine with €140 billion of the €200 billion of the frozen Russian central bank assets in the name of “war compensation loans” to meet Ukraine’s growing funding demand after the three-and-a-half-year war. The Russian Duma called the use of Russian frozen funds “a war operation” and Kremlin spokesman Peskov accused it was a “theft program” for Europeans. Therefore, as a direct retaliation, Putin just signed a decree authorizing the accelerated sale of several Russian and foreign companies operating in Russia, which is not the first time the Kremlin has threatened to confiscate foreign assets since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.
It seems that after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict lasted for three and a half years, because of the difficulty of US-Russian relations to get closer, and Europe is becoming more and more determined in supporting Ukraine, Russia appears more isolated under the premise of Western countries to get closer, of course, there is an unavoidable big premise, that the American Western media fully controls the world's speech, this world's true objective appearance will not be correctly represented, so that the media "been" may be both Russia, and may be Ukraine and the entire Western world.
However, there seems to be an information that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has proposed to cancel 5% gasoline import tariffs so that Russian state-owned oil companies can import gasoline from China, South Korea and Singapore cheaper, which is either counter-proven due to the loss caused by the Ukrainian army's strike on Russian refineries due to the shortage of gasoline supplies in its territory, allegedly now the Russian government has zero import tariffs on gasoline entering designated ports in the Far East, and the difference between international prices and domestic prices by tax-subsidized importers. In addition, other measures taken by the Russian side in addition to importing fuel include: extending the gasoline export ban and setting new restrictions on diesel exports until the end of 2025 and will increase the import of gasoline from Belarus from 450,000 tons per month in September
U.S. President Trump in the middle of this year with the use of powerful means temporarily suppressed the continuation of the so-called "12-day war" between Iran and Israel, now, Trump launched 20 statements after meeting with the Israeli prime minister, has received a positive response from Hamas armed forces, seemingly continuing close to three years of conflict or is about to peace, but there is an important premise, are the premise of a temporary peace achieved at the expense of the interests of Iran and the Palestinians – so the war can be resumed at any time.
Trump once tried to contain Russia's attack on Ukraine in this way, but it did not work. Europe is not willing to let Russia gain a clear advantage in this war. Therefore, now the strategy of Europe and the United States is to support Ukraine in gaining some local advantages in the war with Russia-but we still have to say,"But, Russia's victory on the battlefield was achieved through more than three years of hard struggle, and Ukraine and Europe have been overdrawn by this war. Otherwise, Europe would not be prepared to pay confiscated Russian assets to support Ukraine.
Trump took office as President of the United States in January this year. Since then, his policy towards the Russia-Ukraine war has been inconsistent and inconsistent. In the process, a lot of Ukrainian and European resources have been consumed. In the final analysis, Trump's policy towards Russia-Ukraine is a failure. Yes, even if the Americans really send Tomahawk missiles to the Russia-Ukraine battlefield, the final result will still be a failure. How can such a largest regional war after World War II be changed by one or two weapons?