On Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wrongdoing in Ukraine, where children and people were murdered, deserved “condemnation, hindi maganda (it’s ugly).”

Duterte stressed his differences with Putin in his speech at the Joint National Task Force–Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict XIII Meeting in Butuan City, saying that his administration’s drug campaign just targeted criminals.

“Natatawa ako kasi dalawa na kami ni Putin ngayon.. ako nagpapatay ako ng tao pero ang pinapatay ko criminal hindi ako nagpapatay, nagbobomba ng bata, matanda yung aking kaso sa ICC (International Criminal Court) magkaiba, ako kriminal ang pinatay ko eh. Yung giyera nila doon its so brutal,” (“I can’t help but laugh a little because Putin and I are being lumped together. I kill people, but only criminals. I didn’t kill, or bomb children and the elderly. My case at the ICC is different. I’m only killing criminals while they are waging a brutal war there”) he stated.

“Ako I do not hindi ko kaya yun, magkaibigan kami ni Putin but I’d like to say that what is happening there is deserves a condemnation hindi maganda,” (“I don’t, I can’t do that, Putin and I are friends but I’d like to say that what is happening there deserves condemnation, it is ugly”) he continued.

Duterte emphasized that his drug war campaign did not favor him, stating that it was done for the “future of the Filipino youth.”

He also expressed hope that increasing tensions between the United States and Russia would not result to a nuclear war, which would damage the entire world.