Putin reaffirmed that his country will continue its military operation in Ukraine despite a recent, lightning counteroffensive, saying, 'We aren't in a rush.'
Putin on Friday also accused Ukraine of launching attacks "near our nuclear facilities, nuclear power plants" and warned that Russia will do "everything to prevent any negative turn of events."
"We will retaliate if they fail to understand that such methods are unacceptable, they don’t differ from terrorism,” he said after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Putin, in response to a question about Ukraine's counteroffensive, said: "Let’s [see] how it develops and how it ends."Earlier this month, Ukraine launched a counter-offensive on Kherson in southern Ukraine, before following up with a push near Kharkiv in the northeast, Axios' Dave Lawler reports.
Putin's troops were forced to withdraw from the areas surrounding Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city.insisted that Russia would continue to wage its war "until all the goals that were originally set are achieved"Putin on Friday also sought to quell Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's concern about the war, telling the PM that he wanted the conflict "to end ... as quickly as possible" and accused Ukraine of resisting negotiations.
President Xi Jinping on Thursday during the pair's first in-person encounter since Russian forces launched their invasion.What they're saying:"[Putin] is only further isolating himself from the international community. We don't believe that now is the time to be doing any business as usual with Russia with respect to what they're doing in Ukraine," he said during a news conference.
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