The President of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, avoided a direct answer to the question of how he assessed the rapid counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv region and recalled the negotiations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who unleashed a war against Ukraine, went to Uzbekistan for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, where he had to not only endure humiliation from former satellites, but also answer the questions about the achievements of the Ukrainian army.
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let’s see
“Kyiv authorities have announced that they have launched and are conducting an active counter-offensive operation. Well, let’s see how it develops, how it ends,” Putin told reporters in Samarkand on Friday .
According to him, Russia “responded rather than restrained” in Ukraine.
“But for now. Recently, the Russian armed forces have delivered several sensitive strikes. Let’s consider them warning strikes,” Putin said.
As Putin could only “see,” Ukraine had liberated 8,000 square kilometers of territory and forced the Russian army to flee, leaving behind its own battlefield equipment.
A good mine in a bad game
Even before Putin’s announcement, the Kremlin admitted a military defeat in the Kharkiv region, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), and for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. According to experts, the admission of defeat is part of an effort to ensure that criticism of the failure does not touch Putin personally. ISW believes that the authorities have decided to make the military command an object of criticism.
Speaking to reporters, Putin showed that he is not worried about how the military situation in Ukraine is developing. “The plan is not subject to adjustment. The General Staff makes operational decisions during the operation, taking into account one key thing, the main goal, and the main goal is the liberation of the entire territory of Donbass, ” he said, repeating the thesis that the Russian side has been used since the end of March, when he abandoned further attempts to advance in Kyiv.
Apparently, in the regions of Kherson, Kharkiv and Zaporozhye, “Putin is also liberating Donbass”.
“I draw your attention to the fact that we are not fighting with an entire army. We are fighting only with part of the Russian army, a part of the contract,” the Russian dictator justified to himself.
About the negotiation
Putin said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not want to be with him.
“The first condition (for the meeting to take place) is that they (Ukraine) agree. So they refused! Zelensky announced! Said publicly – I don’t know where, but publicly – that he is not ready and does not want to negotiate talks with Russia,” the dictator said.
At the same time, Putin referred to the President of Turkey, who believed that this meeting could bring a positive result.
The President of the Russian Federation also said that he was not familiar with the proposals for security guarantees of Ukraine. “To be honest, I am not familiar with what they are proposing at this time (draft security guarantees for Ukraine),” he said.
Putin said that Russia has allegedly negotiated security guarantees, there is a draft agreement in Istanbul. This is allegedly the reason why Russia “withdrawn” troops from Kyiv to “create conditions for the conclusion of this agreement.”
Source: korrespondent
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