Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov in a conversation with reporters spoke about the reaction of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the attack by the armed forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region , reported mk.ru.
According to the diploma, the head of state intends to do everything to ensure that the perpetrators will suffer severe punishment.
„The president has made a decision, I am firmly convinced that everyone will be severely punished for what happened in the Kursk region”, said Antonov.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday that the large-scale entry of Ukrainian forces into Russia's Kursk region is part of a systematic effort to end the 30-month war on Ukraine's terms. "Our defensive operations in Donetsk region, Kharkiv region, in southern Ukraine, our deliverance from the Russian Black Sea Fleet, our operation in Kursk region - these are daily strikes on Russian military sites. All of this is our systemic way of defending Ukraine, a way to end this war on the terms of an independent Ukraine. I am sure that we will win this way, no matter how difficult it is," the Ukrainian president said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a briefing with senior officials on the situation in Russian regions bordering Ukraine after Ukrainian forces launched a surprise incursion into the Kursk region on August 6. In Ukraine's blitzkrieg invasion of Kursk Oblast - the largest by another country in Russia since World War II - thousands of Ukrainian troops entered the western Russian region, seemingly catching Moscow off guard. There was initially no reaction from the Kremlin, and Russian President Vladimir Putin even paid a visit abroad as Ukrainian troops advanced into his territory. According to Western analysts, Putin is thus trying to play down the Ukrainian attack, but it is already obvious that this is a mission impossible.