According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country will not mobilize for war. There is no need to mobilize according to him as he claims that there are 244,000 military personnel in Ukraine and also 486,000 volunteers who have signed contracts with the Russian army.
And international sanctions have not bitten the Russian economy at all – on the contrary, according to Putin, it is doing brilliantly.
Here, SVT’s reporter breaks down Putin’s four-hour long press conference.