Video of Finnish PM Explaining Putin's 'Way Out' of Ukraine Viewed 4M Times

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said there's only one off-ramp for Russian President Vladimir Putin to take in his war against Ukraine.

"The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine," Marin told a reporter on Friday. "That's the way out of the conflict."

The video, posted on Twitter by Brussels correspondent Rikhard Husu of the Finnish public broadcaster YLE, has been viewed over 4.1 million times.

Marin's response comes as Russia looks to be playing the long game of destruction over diplomacy, even after Ukrainian soldiers are making headway in regions like Kherson.

Putin is stuck in a difficult spot, Dmitry Gorenburg of the Center for Naval Analysis explained to Newsweek, as he is aware of the military challenges that exist while Russia is in so deep financially and otherwise.

"I think they still want it all," Gorenburg said. "They can't get it all, but they can't reconcile themselves to not having it all, and the result is an incoherent jumble of strategy that makes it very difficult to imagine how Russia could possibly actually win this war."

On Thursday, President Joe Biden said the underperformance of Russia's military provides more cause for concern for tactical nuclear warfare, or the use of chemical or biological weapons.

"I don't think there's any such thing as the ability to easily use tactical nuclear weapons and not end up with Armageddon," Biden said during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in New York City, adding that nuclear tensions haven't been this high since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Victoria Nikiforova, a columnist for Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, responded to Biden's remarks—and those of high-ranking military officials as mentioned to Newsweek—by suggesting that the country's situation with the U.S. is much worse than during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"After such statements from high-ranking US military officials, any comparisons with the Caribbean crisis seem to be just nonsense," Nikiforova said. "It looks like we have long since left this crisis behind us.

"Never during the Cold War did the Americans allow themselves to be so brazen about plotting to assassinate the leader of the Soviet Union."

While the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have distanced themselves from Ukraine's pleas to join the 30-member organization, Finland and Sweden are on track to become NATO's 31st and 32nd members.

The countries want to join due to the threat Russia might pose, with its conflict in Ukraine potentially spilling over to other parts of Europe.

Their membership awaits ratification by the Hungarian and Turkish parliaments and is predicted to occur in coming months.