The Ministry of National Defense “Secure the southern position of Kherson… Repulse the offensive of Ukraine”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the 5th (local time) that “the situation will stabilize” about the occupied territories in the annexed Ukraine.
According to AFP and Reuters, President Putin said this at an award ceremony for teachers held on video on the same day, and he expected “on the assumption that these territories can be developed calmly.”
“Despite the current tragedy, we always have and still have great respect for the Ukrainian people,” Putin said.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing today that the annexed occupied territories have begun an intensive process of adjustment, which will not be easy.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily briefing that Russian troops were holding positions in the southern Kherson region and repelling a dominant enemy offensive.
He said airstrikes were carried out this week in two areas, Duchani and Davidiv Brid, in Kherson province, which had been lost to Ukrainian forces.
On the 30th of last month, President Putin signed an annexation agreement with four occupied territories in Ukraine: Donetsk and Luhansk (Russian name Lugansk) provinces in eastern Ukraine, and Kherson and Zaporiza provinces in southern Ukraine formalized like
However, shortly after the annexation agreement was signed, Ukraine escalated its offensive territorial recovery by smashing Russian defenses in eastern Luhansk and southern Kherson.
In Kherson and Zaporiza, even after the annexation, the unstable situation in the occupied territories continues, with the borders with Ukraine not being precisely cleared.
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