Putin billboard raises invasion fears: Russia's borders do not end

A sign quoting Vladimir Putin about the endlessness of Russia's frontiers has received millions of views on social media, prompting speculation among users about the intention of the message, according to Newsweek.
"This morning an electronic billboard on my way to work is displaying this Putin quote," BBC Russian editor Steve Rosenberg said on X next to an image taken of the sign in between roads packed with traffic.
The billboard has the logo of the state news agency Tass and carries the Putin comment that "Russia's borders do not end anywhere," wrote Rosenberg.
The sign says that Putin made the comment in 2023 and appears to refer to a question he was asked during a meeting of the Moscow-based think tank, the Valdai Discussion Club, in October.
Putin answered that he first made the comment during a meeting with a former U.S. president, whom he did not name, at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence in the Moscow region. "It was said in jest, of course, when he looked at the map of the Russian Federation," Putin said, explaining that the phrase has a "civilizational meaning" because "the Russian world has a global character," with Russian citizens and their language in all continents.
"Russia has not borders but neither do other civilizations," Putin said, referring to India and China and their diasporas and that peoples of many countries "overlap and interact with each other."