The Russian president spoke for four and a half hours and discussed more than 70 different topics, ranging from global to domestic issues

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held his traditional end-of-year press conference in Moscow.

This year the event was again combined with the ‘Direct Line’, during which Putin responded to questions from citizens and the press, including Western media, on a broad range of domestic and international issues.

Putin fielded questions from a total of more than 2 million submitted by the public, speaking for four and a half hours.

The president is estimated to have touched upon more than 70 different topics, including the Ukraine conflict and questions related to Russian frontline soldiers and their families, domestic issues, and broader geopolitics.

This live feed has now ended, but see below for a full recap of Putin’s key quotes.