Russian President Vladimir Putin hints at capturing another major Ukrainian city through military force.
June 21 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin hints at capturing another major Ukrainian city through military force.
"We don't have a saying, or a parable, but an old rule -- where the Russian soldier sets foot, that land is ours," Putin said during an address at the St. Petersburg International
Economic Forum this week, the Russian state-run Tass News Agency reported.
"In this sense, the whole of Ukraine is ours," Putin said, adding that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.
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