Putin accused Ukraine of attacking the Kharkov region and named his “goals” in the region

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< strong _ngcontent-sc140>Putin said that he has no plans to capture Kharkov “for today.” The Russian dictator claims he wants to create a “sanitary zone” in the region.

During a press conference following his visit to China, Putin issued a series of absurd statements about Russia’s attack on the Kharkov region.

Putin’s cynical statement on Kharkov

Putin cynically stated that Russia’s offensive actions in the Kharkov region are a response to the “shelling of Belgorod.” Like, because of this he wants to create a sanitary zone in the region.

As for what is happening in the Kharkov direction, it is also their fault,” said the dictator. For more than 2 years they have been terrorizing the residents of the Kharkov region and killing civilians.

Now Putin is pretending that the threat is the Kharkov region, which is only defending itself from enemy attacks.

I said publicly that if this continues, we will be forced to create security zones. Sanitary zone. “We are doing this,” he said.

The Russian president also assured that there are “no plans to capture Kharkov today.” Although it is unlikely that he would have revealed his true plans.

Earlier, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, noted that the creation of a “buffer zone” is the official position of the Russian leadership, put on public display. He is convinced that the Kremlin announced this in order to somehow explain to the Russians what they are doing in the Kharkov region.

Why is Russia attacking the Kharkov region

• Budanov believes that the main goal of the attack on the Kharkov region is to create chaos and panic in order to force our groups to retreat in the eastern directions and destabilize the situation inside the country.
• He assured that there would be no “buffer zone” in the Kharkov region, because the Ukrainian Armed Forces they will let you do it.
• Meanwhile, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, Andrei Kovalenko, suggested that Russia intends to “bargain” at the expense of the captured settlements of the Kharkov region. The Kremlin wants to put them on the negotiating table in exchange for other territories.