Putin says Russia has the strength to finish Ukraine operation

Russian President Vladimir Putin tours an exhibition at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Gora ahead of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow, Russia, April 30, 2025. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons.

Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe's biggest ground conflict since World War Two and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.