https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/16/whether-you-like-it-or-not-what-putin-said-about-trump-and-ukraine-was-true-n2661924
"I'd like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with a previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be brought to a point of no return when it would come to hostilities and I said it quite directly back then that it's a big mistake. Today, when President Trump is saying that if he was the president back then there would be no war – I am quite sure that it would indeed be so. I can confirm that."