The Putin Thread

[Ravenlocke]

Maimunka News

‼️🇷🇺💬🇺🇸 In his first public appearance of 2026, #Putin denounces U.S. unilateralism imposed by force and calls on the world to strengthen support for the emerging multipolar order. #Russia #USA

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/2011935080176902229

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

🚨⚡️Putin: The international situation is deteriorating, and dozens of countries are experiencing violations of their sovereignty.

Russia is committed to a multipolar world, calls for strengthening the role of the United Nations and comprehensive security, emphasizing that peace is built day by day and international cooperation is the foundation of development and human prosperity.

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2011838811324797012

[Ravenlocke]

Maimunka News

‼️🇷🇺 The ceremony for the presentation of credentials to the President of the #Russian Federation took place today in the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. #Putin

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/2011915280553767069

Brian McDonald

Lots of pomp and ceremony in the Kremlin today as Putin receives the credentials of 34 newly arrived foreign ambassadors.

Notably, 11 of them represent Western ‘unfriendly’ countries, including France, Norway and Sweden.

https://x.com/27khv/status/2011795560655687726

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

🚨⚡️ Afghanistan's Ambassador to the Kremlin and the West in Shock:

Today, President Vladimir Putin received the first official ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Gholam Hassan, in the heart of Moscow.

Putin wished the Taliban "to rid Afghanistan of terrorism and drugs."

-: What Washington failed to achieve with its army over 20 years, the Tsar will accomplish through diplomacy.

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2011890657217167478

[Ravenlocke]

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

💬 President #Putin:

Russia is fully committed to the ideals of a #MultipolarWorld.

We will continue to pursue a balanced foreign policy, guided by national interests & objective global trends.

🤝 We are ready to build mutually beneficial relations with all interested partners

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2012449821416890560

[Ravenlocke]

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

Jan 16
💬 President #Putin:

Russia seeks a long-term, sustainable peace that ensures indivisible security for all.

Not everyone – including Kiev & its supporters – is ready for this yet.

👉 Until such awareness emerges, #Russia will consistently pursue its stated objectives.

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2012089794248188242

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

Jan 16
💬 President #Putin:

Disregard for the principle of equal & indivisible security has never led to anything good.

☝️ The Ukrainian crisis is a direct result of years of ignoring Russia’s legitimate interests & the deliberate advance of
@NATO
towards Russia’s borders

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2012102536808071384

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇬🇱 Putin addressed the United States's plans for a Greenland takeover:

"The United States has had these plans sine as early as the 1860's, they were considering annexing Greenland AND Iceland.

Therefore, there is nothing surprising about what is happening today...."

Always pragmatic.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2013025049410986318

[Ravenlocke]

RT

Putin ready to respond to Trump’s Board of Peace offer AFTER docs studied carefully by foreign ministry

❗️Putin THANKS Trump for personal invitation to join Board of Peace

‘We have ALWAYS supported any efforts to reinforce intl stability’

Notes 'current US admin contributing to resolving Ukraine crisis’

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2014061211025916388

Putin on Greenland issue: this does NOT concern Russia

Points to US acquisition of Alaska, compares, and runs the numbers

However much Greenland might cost, 'I think US can handle even this amount

❗️Russia ready to contribute $1 BILLION to Board of Peace, from Russian assets FROZEN by previous US admin — Putin

Remaining frozen funds could be used to 'REBUILD territories that suffered during hostilities between Russia and Ukraine'

Once peace deal signed

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2014064383945584715

[Ravenlocke]

RT

Putin: 'Denmark has ALWAYS treated Greenland as a COLONY'

'Has treated it quite HARSHLY, but that is a whole other topic'

Confirms: 'this is CLEARLY none of our business — I think they'll be able to deal with this on their own'

Putin on Greenland issue: this does NOT concern Russia

Points to US acquisition of Alaska, compares, and runs the numbers

However much Greenland might cost, 'I think US can handle even this amount

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2014065419305316557

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇵🇸 While they discuss the future of Palestine without Palestinians in Davos, Putin is meeting with Palestinians.


DD Geopolitics

For further clarification, here is Putin's response to Trump's invitation to the Board of Peace:

"Therefore, already now, even before we decide on the issue of participation in the membership and the work of the Peace Council itself, taking into account Russia’s special relations with the Palestinian people, we could, I believe, transfer one billion U.S. dollars to the Peace Council from Russian assets frozen under the previous U.S. administration."

This is how you actually play 5D chess btw.


https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2014360193753305476

TASS

Moscow is ready to allocate $1 bln to support the Palestinian people within the framework of the Board of Peace Council, Putin said at a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas in the Kremlin.

TASS has gathered the key statements by the head of state:
https://vk.cc/cTEcuW

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2...435749313?s=20

https://tass.com/politics/2075319?ut...m_social_share

Palestine relations and possibility of contributing to Board of Peace: Putin's statements

Russia is ready to allocate $1 bln to the Board of Peace "first and foremost to support the Palestinian people," the Russian president said


MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Moscow is ready to allocate $1 bln to support the Palestinian people within the framework of the Board of Peace Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Kremlin.

He also noted that the issue of using Russian assets frozen in the United States will be discussed at a meeting with representatives of the American administration later in the day.

TASS has gathered the key statements by the head of state.

On relations with Palestine

The relations between Russia and Palestine "have deep roots and are special in nature due to their quality."

The relations between Russia and Palestine are developing, "despite all the difficulties associated with the situation in the region."

Russia continues to train personnel for Palestine: "This year, 150 young people will study at universities in Russia."

On situation in the Middle East

Russia's attitude to issues of settlement in the Middle East "is principled and not opportunistic in nature."

Middle East peace hinges on the founding of the Palestinian state: "It’s our position that only the formation and full functioning of a Palestinian state can lead to a final settlement of the Middle East conflict."

Russia provided humanitarian aid "during the most difficult times" of the crisis in Gaza.

On the Board of Peace

Russia is ready to allocate $1 bln to the Board of Peace "first and foremost to support the Palestinian people and to direct those funds to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and, in general, to resolve Palestinian problems."

The issue of using Russian assets frozen in the US to pay the fee to the Board of Peace has already been discussed with the American side: "We have already discussed such options with representatives of the American administration," he said.

The issue of using Russian assets frozen in the US will be discussed at a meeting with representatives of the US administration later in the day: "A meeting and discussion on this topic are planned for today in Moscow."

[Ravenlocke]

Rina Lu🇷🇺

Putin's brother died there. He was one of 400,000 children Germany and Finland starved to death in a single city.

Now the same powers want to eliminate him.

Today, he lays flowers for more than a million civilians starved by Germany and Finland (and Italy) and for his own family tragedy.

https://x.com/rinalu_/status/2016194301672468530

Going Underground

Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the grave of his older brother, Viktor, who died in the Nazi Siege of Leningrad.

Out of a pre-war population of 3.2 million people, 1 million civilians died during the Siege. That’s almost 1 in 3 people.

This doesn’t even count Red Army losses.

The scale of horror Germany committed against the Soviet Union is omitted from school textbooks in NATO nations.

https://x.com/GUnderground_TV/status...81093528174705

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument dedicated to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad

The inscription on the monument says: "You, who are alive, know that we didn't want to leave this land, and we didn't. We fought to the death by the dark Neva. We died so that you could live"

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2016138399833366821

[Ravenlocke]

Chay Bowes

Jan 26
The "Peacock" clock, the Rembrandt Hall, and the throne of Russian emperors:

President Vladimir Putin gave a personal tour of the Hermitage to the Malaysian leader.

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2015763871240237181

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

Jan 26
🚨⚡️Putin began a business lunch with Malaysia's Supreme Ruler Sultan Ibrahim

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2015790592513696023

RT_India

Jan 26
🇷🇺🇲🇾 ‘Malaysia Appeals to Russia with its Vision of International Order, Multipolarity and Building Relations on Mutual Trust’ - Kremlin spox

This ‘creates a very solid basis for discussions,’ Dmitry Peskov stated.


https://x.com/RT_India_news/status/2015779254223413377

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the grave of his older brother, Viktor, who died in the Nazi Siege of Leningrad.

More on this:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/171678

Family stories Vladimir Putin has shared about the war:

The war began, my father volunteered to go to the front. He was sent to a sabotage detachment of the NKVD. They were thrown into the near rear to carry out sabotage acts but they were almost immediately ambushed. Someone betrayed them. They were chased through the forest, and he survived because he sat in a swamp for several hours and breathed through a reed.

He heard German soldiers passing by, dogs barking. I was brought a file on this group from the Defense Ministry archive. Of the 28 people, four crossed the front line back to our troops. 24 died.

Then they were sent to the Nevsky Pyatachok. It was probably the hottest place during the entire siege. Our troops held a small bridgehead, it was supposed to be a bridgehead for breaking the blockade. There are dominating heights all around it, it was shot through. It is still all metal there.

My father told me how he had been wounded there. He lived his whole life with shrapnel in his leg: they never took it all out. His foot never straightened out afterwards.

It was winter already, the Neva was frozen, and he needed to get to the other bank somehow. There were few people willing to drag him to the other side, because the Neva was in full view there, and was under fire from both artillery and machine guns. There was almost no chance of reaching the other bank. But by pure chance, his neighbor in Peterhof happened to be nearby. And this neighbor, without thinking, dragged him. They both crawled there alive. The neighbor waited for him in the hospital, made sure that he had been operated on, and said: "Well, now you will live, and I will go to die", and he went back. Later I asked my father: "Did he die?"

They lost each other, and my father believed that the neighbor had died. In the 60s, he suddenly came home, sat down and cried. He met this savior of his. In a store. In Leningrad. By chance. He went into the store for groceries and saw him. Imagine that they both went to this store at that very moment. One chance in a million...

My mother told me how she came to visit my father in the hospital. They had a small child, he was three years old. And there was hunger, the Siege... And my father gave her his hospital rations. In secret from the doctors and nurses. She hid it, took it home and fed the child. And then he began to faint in the hospital, the doctors understood everything and stopped letting her in.

Then they took her child away. They did it on purpose, with the aim of saving children from starvation. They gathered them in orphanages for evacuation. They didn't even ask the parents. He got sick there and didn't survive. And they weren't even told where he was buried. And then people I didn't know worked in the archives and found documents on my brother.

And this is indeed my brother. Not only the address from which he was taken matched. The first name, last name, patronymic, year of birth matched. And the burial place was indicated: Piskarevskoye Cemetery and even a specific plot.

Father, when the child was taken away, Mother was alone, and he was allowed to walk, went home on crutches. When he approached the house, he saw that the orderlies were carrying corpses out of the entrance. And he saw my mother. He approached her, and it seemed to him that she was breathing. He said to the orderlies: "She's still alive!" - "She'll get there on the way, she won't survive." He said that he had attacked them with crutches and forced them to lift her back into the apartment. He nursed her back to health. She stayed alive. And she lived until 1999. He died at the end of 1998.

There was no family where someone did not die but they did not hate the enemy, that's what's amazing. I still can't, honestly, fully understand this. Mom said: "What kind of hatred can there be for these soldiers? They are ordinary people. They were just driven to the front." I remember these words from my childhood.

[Ravenlocke]

Syria Retold Daily

Al-Sharaa to Putin:

As I was coming from the airport, I noticed the vast amount of snow along the road on our way to the Kremlin. That scene brought history to mind.

I recalled how many military campaigns attempted to reach Moscow—and how they ultimately failed, due to the bravery of Russian soldiers, with nature itself also playing a role in defending this blessed land.

We therefore ask God to always preserve its safety.

https://x.com/SyriaRetold/status/2016544635733102707

🇸🇾🇷🇺Syria's Al-Sharaa speaks about snow as a historic shield while opening talks with Putin in Moscow.

📹Ahmad Sharaa, the Syrian President for the transitional period, touches down in Moscow for scheduled talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2016509154479759526

[Ravenlocke]

RT

We've already planned some very good events in the field of industry and humanitarian work: medicine, sports, construction — Putin told Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa

'I know that a lot needs to be restored and rebuilt in Syria'

'Our economic operators are ready to join these efforts'

President Putin congratulates Al-Sharaa on 'gaining momentum' in restoring territorial integrity of Syria

'We are glad to see you once again. Welcome' x.com/RT_com/status/…


https://x.com/RT_com/status/2016511013936304306

[Ravenlocke]

Middle East Observer

⚡️⭕️Syrian President to Putin: Moscow's Snow Reminds Me of History

- When I was coming from the airport, I saw a large amount of snow on the road on our way to the Kremlin, so I remembered the history in the past.
- I remembered how many military campaigns some parties tried to reach Moscow, and then how they failed because of the bravery of Russian soldiers, and how nature also helped you defend this blessed land.
- So we ask God for its safety always.

📍 Moscow, Russia | 📅 28/01/2026

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/2016518270988247356

TOLOnews English

Video: Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed al-Sharaa, at the Kremlin on Wednesday (January 28).

According to Reuters, citing sources, the two leaders were set to include the sensitive issue of Russia's future military presence in Syria.
#TOLOnews_English

https://x.com/TOLONewsEnglish/status...06426903511452

The Kasperian ™ 🍁

Vladimir #Putin congratulated the interim head of #Syria, al-Sharaa, on the reintegration of the Euphrates region into the country.

( Being a diplomat must suck )

https://x.com/TheKasperian/status/2016598056125526083

[Ravenlocke]

The Cradle,

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2016563616707715282

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/35646

Putin 'very pleased' with Syria ties as Sharaa visits Moscow
Russia is seeking to preserve its economic and military presence in Syria following Assad's fall

News Desk
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on 28 January that he was “very pleased” to host self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Moscow and that the growth in economic cooperation between them was “remarkable” and a “great achievement.”

“Dear President, dear colleagues, we are very pleased to see you again in Moscow,” Putin said during his meeting with Sharaa, the former Al-Qaeda commander, at the Kremlin.

“We have also been able to raise the level of economic cooperation, with growth exceeding four percent. This may not be as ambitious as we would like, but it is still a great achievement, and we must certainly maintain this outstanding trend,” the Russian president explained.

“Now, in light of the new reality, and thanks to your efforts, and especially your efforts, relations between Syria and Russia are developing.”

Russia had supported the government of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus during the 14-year covert war waged against the country by the US, Israel, and their regional allies.

The effort was successful when Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) toppled Assad and took power in Damascus in December 2024.

Though Sharaa's extremist-dominated security forces committed major massacres against Syria's minority Alawite and Druze populations, the US and Europe have warmly welcomed Sharaa into the international community.

Russia has followed suit, in part to avoid losing its naval and air bases on Syria's coast, its lucrative contracts for rebuilding the country, and to ensure the Damascus government continues to make payments on debts to Russian creditors.

Before Sharaa's arrival, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “the presence of our soldiers in Syria” would be discussed.

Sharaa first visited Moscow in October of last year. “Since the last visit to Moscow, various committees have been working in different areas to develop relations between the two countries,” Putin added.

“I know that there is a lot that needs to be rebuilt in Syria. And we have economic contractors, including those working in the construction sector, who are fully prepared for this joint effort,” the Russian president affirmed.

Putin also expressed his support for the Syrian government's recent conquest of territory held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria since 2019.

“We have been closely following your efforts to restore the territorial integrity of Syria. I would like to congratulate you on the momentum this process is gaining. We have always called for the restoration of the territorial integrity of Syria, as you know, and we support all your efforts in this direction,” he stated.

Sharaa's forces took control of Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo, as well as the Arab-majority eastern countryside of Aleppo, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor.

“I hope that the integration of the Euphrates region will be a decisive step in this direction, which would contribute to restoring the unity of Syrian territory as a whole.”

Russian forces based in the Qamishli airport in northeast Syria recently transferred to bases on the Syrian coast.

Earlier today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a press conference that “Relations with the Syrian Arab Republic are witnessing remarkable development.”

Before traveling to Moscow, Sharaa spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump, who said he is “very happy” with developments in Syria following the assault on the SDF, which the US had formerly backed.

“I had a great conversation with the highly respected president of Syria, and all of the things having to do with Syria and that area,” Trump told reporters.

“It's working out very well, so we're very happy about it,” the US president added.

A statement from the Syrian presidency said that Sharaa had emphasized to Trump “Syria's full commitment to its territorial integrity and its national sovereignty and the state's keenness to preserve its institutions and promote civil peace.”

Before becoming the president of Syria, Sharaa was a commander in Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which was notorious for slaughtering civilians using suicide and car bombs.

After his detention in the US prison in Bucca, southern Iraq, Sharaa was dispatched by Islamic State (later ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to establish a wing of his group in Syria.

With covert assistance from the US, Israel, Turkiye, and Qatar, Sharaa conquered large swathes of Syria, including Idlib governorate in the northwest of the country, in 2015.

In November 2024, Sharaa's forces launched a lightning offensive, taking control of Damascus just two weeks later as part of an agreement with the US, Israel, Turkiye, and Russia.