‘Everyone should know that, by and large, we haven’t started anything yet in earnest,’ Russian president tells Kremlin parliamentary leaders
“Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say – let them try,” he said.
“They simply don’t need such a country as Russia,” Putin said. “This is why they have used terrorism, separatism and internal destructive forces in our country.” The Russian president said at a meeting with parliamentary leaders on Thursday that the prospects for any negotiation would grow dimmer the longer the conflict dragged on.Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Mykhailo Podolyak, dismissed Putin’s notion of a plan directed against Russia by the west.
Russian prosecutors also called for prison sentences on Thursday for a prominent opposition activist and for a Moscow city council member who spoke up against Russia’s actions in Ukraine.Alexei Gorinov, who was detained in April, is the first Russian elected representative to face prison for spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian army, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years’ jail.
Pivovarov was pulled off a Warsaw-bound plane at St Petersburg’s airport just before takeoff in May last year. He was taken to the southern city of Krasnodar, where he was accused of supporting a local candidate on behalf of an “undesirable” organisation. The criminal charge is based on his social media posts supporting independent candidates in Krasnodar’s municipal elections.
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