What Putin Said On AI And Risks Of Global War

Vladimir Putin said that Russia and Ukraine almost agreed to a peace deal in Istanbul shortly after the full-scale war began in 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in an interview published on Friday about war and peace in Ukraine, the risks of advances in genetics and artificial intelligence and fears of a world war.

The following are the key points, as translated by Reuters from the Russian based on a Kremlin transcript.

After a half-hour lecture on the history of Russia and Ukraine dating back to the dawn of Slavic history in 862, Putin said that Russia and Ukraine almost agreed to a peace deal in Istanbul shortly after the full-scale war began in 2022 but that it was turned down by Ukraine at the behest of the West, specifically Boris Johnson, then British prime minister.