Putin accuses Ukraine of trying to torpedo presidential elections

The Russian President, Vladimir Putintoday accused Ukraine of trying to torpedo the Presidential elections, which began on Friday in this country, and promised that these “will not go unpunished”.

“To torpedo the elections, scare peoplein several border regions with Ukraine the neo-Nazi regime of Kyiv planned and intended to execute demonstrative military actions. These enemy attacks cannot and will not go unpunished“, he said put on preside over videoconference at a meeting of the Security Council of Russia.

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put onwho seeks re-election for a fifth term, was “convinced”that the Russian people will respond to the threat with“an even bigger unit”.

“Who did they decide to intimidate? For the Russian people? For the multinational people of Russia? This never happened and I’m sure This is never going to happen”he claimed.

The Russian leader guaranteed that these attacks against the Belgorod regions, the most punished since the start of the war in UkraineIt is Kursk They had goalscivilians”on Russian territory.

“About 95% of the enemy’s missiles and projectiles were destroyed by the anti-aircraft defense. However, unfortunately we have civilian casualties.”he pointed out.

Ukraine attacked on Friday – with 15 missiles vampire Czech production Belgorodincluding its capital, leaving two dead, after, in turn, Russia attacked a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Odessa with a balance of 14 dead and 46 injured.

In turn, Putin denounced that since March 12 the Ukrainian army has been using “special units of foreign mercenaries and support forces of the Ukrainian army” to try “enter and establish” on Russian territory.

“They committed a whole series of sabotage attacks and terrorism, four in the Belgorod region and one in Kursk. “They used more than 2,500 soldiers, 35 tanks and almost forty armored vehicles.”he said.

However, he added, “he enemy He failed (…), he was repelled and retreated, or rather, fled, with a large number of victims. “He lost about 60% of his troops and more than half of his armor.”

As reported this morning by Russian Ministry of DefenseUkrainian troops suffered more than 1,500 victims, 500 of them fatalin its attacks over the past three days against Russian regions.

Source: Elcomercio

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