Excerpts are a requirement. The link was presented to the full article as required. Nothing was misrepresented, because the full article was linked.
You, on the other had, flatly denied the fact those exact words appeared in the article, so you lied. now you are trying to spin your lie to escape notice you lied. It won’t work. The article is what it is, and the excerpt pointed directly to it.
So you excerpted an article to make it appear that Putin’s quote was an absolute fact, when it is actually only HEARSAY, highly in doubt. And for calling you out on that I am a LIAR.
The way you quoted the article is extremely misleading to your readers. That doesn’t bother your conscience even a little bit?