Russian President Vladimir Putin offered some praise for President Donald Trump in an interview published over the weekend in expressing hope that the U.S. leader would “restore order” throughout the European continent amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

“Trump, with his character and stubbornness, will restore order there quickly. And all of them – you will see – it will happen swiftly. Soon they will all sit at the feet of their master and gently wag their tails,” Putin said

The Russian president also claimed that Trump’s candidacy was widely opposed throughout Europe and that some countries may have actually interfered in the U.S. election because “mentally, the then-president Joe Biden suited them more.”

Putin added that “Trump has different ideas about what is good and what is bad – also in matters of gender policy and other issues. And they apparently do not like that,” the outlet reported.