Even as his invasion struggles, the Russian president insisted the war had raised Moscow’s stature.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday argued that the West had failed in its “economic, financial and technological aggression” against Russia and that his country had only gained from the global standoff over his invasion of Ukraine.

“We have not lost anything and will not lose anything,” Mr. Putin said at an economic conference in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok. Read more

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