Vladimir Putin demonstrated his “inappropriateness and confusion” in Tuesday’s speech before the Russian Federal Assembly, Mykhailo Podolyak, chief adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said on CNN.

• “Putin publicly demonstrated his irrelevance and confusion.
• “There are Nazis, Martians and conspiracy theorists everywhere,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter.

A year after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin addressed the assembled chambers of the Federal Assembly in a hallucinatory speech that lasted nearly two hours, in which he argued that the West was the one who “started the conflict” and Russia should “use to force it to stop “.

The Kremlin leader’s speech took place a day after US President Joe Biden’s historic visit to Kyiv, which, according to political analysts, raised the stakes for Vladimir Putin’s speech.