In an interview with India Today, Putin said that the aggressor country of the Russian Federation will supposedly “in any case” seize the Ukrainian Donbass and other territories of southern Ukraine – “militarily or otherwise.”
The statement by the illegitimate Russian president came against the backdrop of another round of peace efforts led by the United States, Politico emphasized. As the media pointed out, it only confirms that Putin “is not going to retreat from his maximalist military goals.”
Politico, with reference to maps of military operations, writes that Russian troops currently control about 80% of the territory of Donbass.
