2024-01-01 12:23:00
Russia will “intensify” its strikes on military targets in Ukraine, in retaliation for the unprecedented scale bombing by the Ukrainian army of the Russian town of Belgorod this weekend, Vladimir Putin announced on Monday.
“We will intensify the strikes, no crime once morest civilians will go unpunished, that is a certainty,” declared Mr. Putin during a visit to a military hospital, specifying that these strikes will be carried out “on military installations” .
“We are striking with precision weapons the places of decision-making, the places where soldiers and mercenaries gather, other centers of this type, military installations above all. And they are very sensitive, these strikes. C “This is what we will continue to do,” Mr. Putin continued.
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Describing the bombing of Belgorod as a “terrorist act”, which left 24 dead and more than a hundred injured on Saturday, he accused the Ukrainian forces of having struck “right in the center of the city, where people were take a walk before New Year’s Eve.
Mr. Putin nevertheless considered that “Ukraine is not an enemy” in itself and accused the West of using the Kiev authorities to “settle their own problems” with Russia.
The Russian president also estimated that Moscow’s forces now have the “strategic initiative” on the front in Ukraine, where they have been gaining ground since the failure of the Ukrainian summer counter-offensive.
The strike on Belgorod followed a series of Russian bombings on Ukrainian cities on Friday, which left around 40 dead.
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