Putin vows Russia will seize Donbas region by any means, as Ukrainians prepare fo

Описание: Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday where he will be hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, two days after a meeting at the Kremlin with a US delegation led by special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials are traveling to the US on Thursday, where they have been invited to hold talks with their American counterparts on a plan to end Moscow’s war, a Ukrainian source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.Ahead of the Modi summit, Putin gave an interview with India Today, in which he said Russia would “liberate Donbas and Novorossiya in any case – by military or other means,” according to Russian state media TASS.

Asked what would constitute a victory for Russia in the war, Putin said: “We will finish it when we achieve the goals set at the beginning of the special military operation, when we free these territories. That’s all.”One of the Kremlin’s biggest demands is for Ukraine to surrender territory in the Donbas region, which Russia has illegally annexed but not yet fully conquered. Novorossiya, or New Russia, is a historical term referring to territories toward the west during the Russian empire; Putin has revived the term, and used it in declaring the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea as part of Russia in 2014.As Russia doubles down on these territorial demands, which Ukrainian officials continue to reject, the path towards any compromise seems increasingly unclear.

Despite Putin’s bullish claims, Russian forces would only seize the entire Donetsk region in August 2027 at the current rate of their advance, an analysis by the Institute for the Study of War, a US-based conflict monitor, found.In Putin’s description of his Tuesday meeting in Moscow with Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, he said Russia did not agree with some of the points of the US proposal, but that it was a “difficult task.” He reiterated Russia’s demands that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the Donbas and “refrain from military action,” according to TASS.

The meeting lasted a long time as both parties had to “go through each point of the peace proposals,” Putin added, according to TASS.#ukrainewar #russiaukrainewar #russia #unfrezzmyaccount #trandingshorts #live #youtubeshorts #ukrain