Putin: "The Ukrainians have pushed the negotiations into a dead end, it is they who have created difficulties in bringing them to an acceptable level and the military operation will continue until there are acceptable negotiations".
According to the Kremlin, Ukraine would not respect the agreements reached with Russia in Istanbul and Ukraine would be used as a tool to achieve the goals of the West, regardless of the well-being of the Ukrainian people.
According to Putin, the consolidation of the West is linked to a humiliating and humiliated position of Europe in relation to the country that dominates it, they are ashamed to say that they are being slapped by the USA.
"It is convenient to unite around the concept of Russian aggression and thus serve the US", emphasizes Putin.
On the Bucha massacre, the Russian president speaks of "fake news"Artfully orchestrated. In Bucha, 403 bodies of civilians killed by Russian troops in the days of the occupation have been found so far but the number will still increase, said the mayor of the city Anatoliy Fedoruk, explaining that it is too early because the residents have fled in recent weeks. return to their homes.
The Ukrainian president Zelensky, speaking to the Lithuanian Parliament, said that in the liberated occupied areas of Ukraine work continues to record and investigate war crimes committed by Russia. New mass graves are found almost every day. Thousands of victims, hundreds of cases of brutal torture. They still lie corpses in manholes and basements. Bodies bound and mutilated. Hundreds of orphans, hundreds of rapes have been reported, including underage girls and very young children and even babies.
And in this passing phase of the conflict, Kiev is asking Europe for an even tougher attitude towards Moscow. "Every effort must be made to ensure that Europe's response to Russian aggression is truly strong and truly consolidated. ', Zelensky reiterated asking to "set specific deadlines for each EU state in order to effectively abandon or at least significantly limit the consumption of gas and oil".
Russia's special military operation in Ukraine is proceeding according to plan, confirms Putin without hesitation. Waiting for theRussian offensive in Donbass, fighting continues in the south and east of the country.
Putin, in a press conference after talks with the Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at the site of the Vostochny spaceport, in the Amur region, confirmed the solid relations with Minsk, which remains Moscow's only faithful ally.
'It's important - said Putin - strengthen the integration of Russia and Belarus in the light of the total war of the West's sanctions'.
Moscow close to compromise with the West
Moscow, writes Il Giornale, could start negotiations as soon as the conquest of the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in the Donesk oblast and of Slevierdonetsk in the Lugansk oblast is finished. Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Slevierdonetsk are - together with the tormented Mariupol - the cities on which the grip of the Russian units positioned on the north-eastern quadrant of Izrum and those moving from the territories of Donbass, to the south and to the east, is closing in these hours.
Moscow would thus renounce both the capture of Odessa and of those territories east of the Dnieper flume considered indispensable initially to create a buffer zone with pro-Western Ukraine and to claim the reconquest of the original Tsarist Novorossya. A renunciation also imposed by the awareness that the control of those territories would require the deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers engaged in an exhausting low-intensity conflict with insurgent forces loyal to Kiev and armed by NATO. In exchange for these renunciations, Russia will ask for the recognition of full Russian sovereignty over Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk.