Putin calls his war in Ukraine "a success": everything is going as planned
Volodymyr Putin called the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine successful and claimed that the war is going according to plan.
Source: Putin at the conference on measures to provide Russian regions with socio-economic support, Russian media.
Quote: "The operation is developing successfully and in strict accordance with plans."
Details: According to Putin’s statement, the tactics used by the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation "have been paying off in full, everything possible is being done to avoid civilian casualties". However, thousands of civilians have died at the hands of Russian soldiers. Over a hundred of these were children.
Moreover, the Russian president has claimed that western allies "are pushing Kyiv to shed blood" by supplying arms and mercenaries, although it was Russia that attacked Ukraine and that is hiring soldiers in Syria to fight in Ukraine.
Putin has repeated that Russia had no intention of occupying Ukraine, although Russian troops are committing horrific violence near Kyiv and in other Ukrainian cities.
As claimed by the Russian president, if Russian troops had fought only in Donbas it would not have "eliminated the threat", and a "new front line" would have lain across the region.
Putin has also reiterated some Russian propagandist stereotypes, saying that Kyiv might have created nuclear weapons and the components of biological weapons with the help of allies.
Background: Russia, led by Volodymyr Putin, launched a full-scale war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, after eight years of hybrid war and occupation of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Since the first days of the war, which Putin calls a special operation, Russia has been bombing residential areas in Ukrainian cities, destroying them and killing civilians. Later, the occupiers began to lay siege to the cities, causing severe suffering from hunger and thirst.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky hopes Putin will be brought before an international tribunal. Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and the investigative team of the International Criminal Court have already arrived in Ukraine to gather evidence of the Russian Federations’s war crimes.
