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President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s anti-aircraft systems were destroying many Western-supplied Ukrainian weapons like nuts. Photo/REUTERS
The comments came in brief excerpts from an interview broadcast on Saturday.
News agency RIAwho first quoted the comments, quoted Putin as responding to a question about US-supplied Ukrainian weapons by saying Moscow handled it easily.
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But, according to Reutersthe video of the interview to be shown on Sunday (5/6/2022) makes it clear that Putin had in fact responded to a different question, which was not shown.
“Our anti-aircraft system crushed it like nuts. Dozens have been destroyed,” Putin said.
Although the type of weapon in question is unclear, Russia claims to have destroyed the planes and missiles deployed by Ukraine.
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