Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has not ruled out that the fighting in Ukraine could turn into a 'lengthy process,' while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine will not leave any of its citizens under Russian occupation.
- Dec 08, 2022, 10:30 AM CST
Putin, who met in a televised meeting of his Human Rights Council, said the"special military operation" could go on for a long time, and called Russia's annexation of part of the territories of Ukraine a major achievement of the operation.roughly nine and a half months after ordering the invasion. Russia captured the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol in May after a nearly three-month siege of the city. In September, Putin illegally annexed four Ukrainian regions – Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, and Luhansk -- even though his forces did not completely control them. Russia illegally seized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
He stressed that Ukraine will not leave"any of our people under Russian occupation," in Russian camps,"where thousands have already disappeared," or on Russian territory,"where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were forcibly deported." Russia intends to protect"national interests" -- first by"peaceful means" and if this does not help, then by"all available,” Putin said.Putin has raised alarm in Western countries by making veiled threats about the use of nuclear weapons. These have raised fears that the Russian military could use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine in order to achieve results more quickly.
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