ST. PETERSBURG, June 20. /TASS/. Russia views all of Ukraine as its own, but does not deny the country’s right to independence, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the SPIEF plenary session. He called on Kiev to end the conflict, taking existing realities into account.
The head of state also answered questions about the possibility of a mutually acceptable peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East, the new world order and the outdated approaches of the West, which continues to ignore the interests of the Russian Federation.
TASS has compiled the main theses of the Russian president.
Russia is not seeking Ukraine's surrender: "We insist on recognizing the realities that have developed on the ground." Thus, the Russian army "is advancing in all directions along the entire line of contact every day," creating a security zone, to which the enemy is forced to divert its forces, "which are already lacking in the principal areas of the armed struggle."
In the Kursk Region, Ukraine lost 76,000 people, "a disaster for them." The purpose of the attack on the Kursk Region was "of a political nature - to show that they are capable, in order to secure more funding from their sponsors from abroad."
