Putin: "Conquest of eastern Ukraine remains priority number one"
Conquering the Donbas is Russia's biggest priority at the moment. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this at an economic forum in Vladivostok on Thursday.
Putin states that Ukraine wanted to make Russia "nervous and restless" with the attack on the Kursk border region, so that the Russians would move their troops from one zone to another and stop their offensive, especially in the Donbas. But according to Putin, the Ukrainian invasion has had no effect on Russian plans, and Ukraine has even accelerated Russia's conquest of the Donbas "by moving reasonably well-prepared troops to Kursk." “The enemy has weakened itself in certain key positions, our army has accelerated its offensive operations,” the Russian president claims.
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