Talking to a mother of a dead Russian soldier Putin says Russia isn't going to make any concessions, because "every day we liberate a piece of our land". The woman says "we need peace but we should make no concessions to anyone and we need to go to the very end" (which is already quite contradictory). Then Putin says "we need a deal that will ensure our development in conditions of peace and security", which is even more contradictory granted that Russia has started the war and illegally annexed the territories it now calls its own. How should it be understood? It should be understood literally, only in a different semantic space from ours. Putin says that Russia must develop in the same way as it has done until now - we in Europe call this the colonial and expansionist model. The Russians don't call it anything in particular, it's just the way it is - that means the boss of the mafia and his princes (oligarchs) are in charge. The "peace" means Russians want to continue using the Western banking system and keep their money there because of its security, but at the same time they want their activities to be excluded from the legal restrictions of the same system because they are inconvenient. Russians do not want anyone to interfere in their internal affairs - because if the murder of journalists or activists has become the norm, then apparently that is the way it is. But at the same time, they want to have the full right to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries - this is what he means by "security" - including such petty interventions as approving or contesting street names in Polish or Estonian municipalities. Don't be fooled into thinking that "peaceful development" means that Russia can mind its own business and leave Poland or Europe alone - no, because its development model is parasitic by definition. In exactly the same way that a car thief or a telephone scammer cannot "mind their own business" because their profession is by definition based on stealing from "suckers".