Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk was intended to slow Russia’s advance in the Donbas, but failed as Kiev simply weakened its forces along the rest of the front.
In the biggest foreign attack on Russian soil since World War II, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers crossed the Russian border on August 6 with the help of a host of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), heavy weapons and artillery, some of which were Western-made. .
Putin, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, said that by moving large and well-trained units inside Russia, Ukraine had weakened itself and allowed Russia to accelerate its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Russia’s sacred duty to repel the invaders
Putin said it was Russia’s “sacred duty” to repel the invaders and that Russian forces were beginning to drive Ukrainian troops out of Kursk.
He added that the Russian promotion in the city of Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, was successful.
Asked about the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on the Zaporizhia and Kursk nuclear power plants, Putin called them “very dangerous terrorist attacks.”
“One can only imagine what will happen if we respond in exactly the same way? Can anyone imagine what will happen in this part of Europe?’ asked the Russian president.
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