Putin visits injured: "Attacks to be intensified"
President Vladimir Putin warns that the Russian military will intensify its attacks on "military targets" in Ukraine in the coming days, reports AFP. The announcement comes after attacks on the Russian city of Belgorod this weekend, which Russia says resulted in 24 deaths.
- No crime against civilians will go unpunished, that's for sure, Putin says during a visit to a military hospital on Monday and continues:
- What happened in Belgorod was an act of terrorism.
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of several attacks over the New Year's holiday. Kyiv states that a record number of drone attacks were directed at the country last night and that the Ukrainian air defense shot down 87 Iranian-made drones, writes Politico.
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Zelenskyy wants to awaken fighting spirit in 2024 - focuses on important cities
After nearly two years of war, the West has lost its sense of urgency and many Ukrainians have lost their sense of existential threat. This is what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi says in an interview with The Economist.
His focus in 2024 will be to revive fighting spirit both in the West and in his own country.
- Perhaps we have not succeeded in the way that the world had hoped. Maybe it's not going as fast as some imagined. But the idea that Putin is about to win is also a feeling. In fact, Russian forces are being slaughtered in places like Avdijivka, he says.
Zelenskyy does not want to make any promises about how much land the army can take back in the coming year. The primary task of the soldiers has shifted to defending the regions in the east and south and to "save very important cities" such as Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Mykolaiv, according to the president.
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