Putin says Russia faces unprecedented Western pressure

MOSCOW, June 29 — Russia is facing harsh, unprecedented pressure exerted by Western countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday. “Russia is facing harsh, unprecedented pressure from Western elites.

Unable to deliver a strategic defeat or battlefield victory against Russia, these forces have sought to destabilize its political landscape and stoke internal unrest, yet all such attempts have ended in failure,” Putin stated at the plenary session of the 23rd Congress of the United Russia party.