President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the West of using the Ukraine conflict to “be done" with Russia, said traitors must be punished, and proclaimed that Moscow had successfully withstood Western sanctions. “Western elites are not hiding their goal — to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. It means to be done with us once and for all," Putin said three days before the first anniversary of the military intervention in Ukraine. “The responsibility for fuelling the Ukrainian conflict, for its escalation, for the number of victims… lies completely with Western elites," Putin said, repeating his claim that the West...