Armed forces of Ukraine on Saturday carried out drone attacks on numerous military facilities in several regions of Russia. Kiev claims that this was a response to the massive bombing of Ukrainian cities by the Russians the previous day.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed about the bombing of Belgorod, who ordered the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashka, to fly to the city immediately. The investigative committee opened a criminal case under the articles of murder and destruction of property. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation accused Great Britain of participating in the attack and demanded an emergency session of the UN Security Council. Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasiliy Nebenzia, called the Belgorod bombing a “planned terrorist attack on a peaceful city.”
Putin points to Russia's enemy
– Western elites are trying to destroy Russia with the help of Ukraine. The problem is not that they are helping our enemy, they are our enemy. They solve their problem by hand. It has been like this for centuries and it continues to be like this, – Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Russian soldiers wounded during the military operations in Ukraine.
– Ukraine itself is not our enemy. But those who want to destroy the Russian state, those who want to achieve, as they say, the strategic defeat of Russia on the battlefield. And this is mainly said by the so-called elites in the West, for whom the existence of Russia in its current quality and size, in their opinion, is unacceptable, he emphasized.
The Russian leader claimed this The situation on the battlefield It is “changing” in Ukraine, despite the fact that “the whole so-called civilized West is fighting against Russia.”
We want to end the conflict as quickly as possible, but on our terms,” Putin said. “Practically, the strategic initiative is in our hands today,” he said.
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