Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was ready to talk to President-elect Donald Trump, and said Russia was getting stronger.

When asked at his annual press-conference what he was going to offer to Trump, Putin said that he did not know when the two of them would meet.

Russia is ready for talks and compromises on Ukraine, but it needs the other side to be ready for them as well, he added.

Russian forces were moving toward achieving their primary goals on the battlefield in Ukraine and were taking control of significant territory every day, according to Putin.

Fielding questions at his annual phone-in with Russians, Putin said Russian forces were advancing along the entire battle front.

"I must say that the situation is changing dramatically... There is movement along the entire front line. Every day," he said.

Military analysts say Russia is advancing in eastern Ukraine at the fastest pace since 2022.

"Our fighters are reclaiming territory by the square kilometer every day," Putin said.

"The fighting is difficult, so it is difficult and pointless to guess what lies ahead... (but) we are moving, as you said, towards solving our primary tasks, which we outlined at the beginning of the special military operation."

Discussing the continued presence of Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region, Putin said they would definitely be forced out, but declined to say exactly when that would happen.

On Russia's Oreshnik Hypersonic Missile

"There is no chance of shooting down these missiles," Putin said.

"Let Western experts propose to us, and let them propose to those in the West and the U.S. who pay them for their analysis, to conduct some kind of technological experiment, say, a high-tech duel of the 21st century. Let them determine some target for destruction, say in Kyiv, concentrate all their air defense and missile defense forces there, and we will strike there with Oreshnik and see what happens. We are ready for such an experiment, but is the other side ready?"