Putin warns Russia 'ready' if Europe 'suddenly wants to wage war with us' amid Ukraine talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin ratcheted up tensions with Europe connected Tuesday, informing that if the bloc sparked a warfare with Russia, Moscow was prepared to conscionable it.

Putin besides blasted European leaders, accusing them of sabotaging U.S.-led efforts to extremity the astir four-year-old warfare successful Ukraine.

"But if Europe abruptly wants to wage a warfare with america and starts it, we are acceptable close away. There tin beryllium nary uncertainty astir that," Putin said, according to The Associated Press.

Putin was responding to a question astir Russian media reports that Hungary’s overseas curate warned Europe was preparing for warfare with Russia. Putin insisted, arsenic helium has for years, that Moscow does not question a warfare with European nations.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a gathering with President Donald Trump’s peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and elder advisor Jared Kushner astatine the Kremlin successful Moscow, Russia, connected Dec. 2, 2025.  (Alexander Kazakov via Reuters)

The Russian president made the remarks aft speaking astatine an concern forum and earlier gathering successful the Kremlin with a U.S. delegation led by envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

It’s not the archetypal clip Putin has warned Europe astir meddling successful the war.

In October, Putin warned that Europe would look a "significant response" if it continued supplying subject assistance to Ukraine, and helium made akin threats successful May.

In February 2024, Putin warned that Western subject involution against Russia’s penetration of Ukraine could effect successful atomic escalation — a connection wide interpreted arsenic a informing to Europe and Western allies.

Putin claimed connected Tuesday that European leaders introduced "demands that are perfectly unacceptable to Russia" that efficaciously "blocked the full bid process." He accused them of doing truthful cynically successful bid to blasted Moscow for rejecting peace.

European leaders person maintained that Putin’s penetration of Ukraine is simply a stepping chromatic to a wider warfare with the 27-nation European Union, which has poured billions of dollars into supporting Kyiv.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with President Donald Trump’s peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff, elder advisor Jared Kushner and members of the American delegation astatine the Kremlin successful Moscow, Russia, connected Dec. 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Reuters)

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Putin said European powers had locked themselves retired of bid talks connected Ukraine due to the fact that they chopped disconnected contacts with Moscow.

"They are connected the broadside of war," Putin said.

He besides suggested the struggle successful Ukraine was not a full-blown war, describing Russia’s actions arsenic "surgical" — a restraint, helium said, that would not use successful a nonstop confrontation with European powers, according to Reuters. 

Putin’s comments travel arsenic Witkoff and Kushner property for bid betwixt Ukraine and Russia.

On Sunday, Witkoff — a cardinal fig successful negotiating the ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas — joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Kushner successful Florida to conscionable with Ukrainian negotiators. Rubio described the gathering arsenic "very productive." In a statement, Rubio said the extremity is "not conscionable the extremity of the war."

Last week, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that Moscow could cull the White House’s bid model if it does not uphold the "spirit and letter" of what Trump and Putin agreed to astatine the Alaska acme successful August. He said that if the "key understandings" were watered down, the concern would go "fundamentally different."

Firefighters enactment retired a occurrence aft a Russian rocket deed a multi-story residential gathering successful Vyshgorod, extracurricular of Kyiv, Ukraine, aboriginal connected Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Despite Lavrov’s comments, Putin showed involvement successful Trump’s effort to extremity the war, calling the drafted program a starting point. 

"We request to beryllium down and sermon this seriously," Putin told reporters, according to the AP.

He characterized Trump’s program arsenic "a acceptable of issues enactment guardant for discussion," alternatively than a draught agreement.

Fox News’ Andrea Margolis, Sarah Tobianski, Kyle Schmidbauer and Ashley Carnahan arsenic good arsenic The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.