"Putin is afraid to admit how many people have died," Ukraine's president said.
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>Russia sent to Ukraine some of its dead troops in a prisoner and body exchange to hide Moscow's true battlefield losses, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president said that Vladimir Putin was using the return of war dead to obscure the scale of military losses from the Russian public. "Putin is afraid to admit how many people have died," Zelensky told the media briefing, according to the Kyiv Independent. Ukraine recovered 6,057 bodies of its fallen soldiers while Russia took back only 78, according to Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky. Zelensky has said the vast majority of Russian soldiers killed on the battlefield remain in Russian hands. But at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers, some of whom had Russian passports according to Zelensky as part of a policy by Moscow to "break the reality in which we live." The Ukrainian president also cited the case of an Israeli citizen who had died fighting on Russia's side whom Moscow had passed off as a Ukrainian soldier.<
Putin dishonors Russian war dead.... and Donald Trump dishonors US war dead ("suckers and losers").
Russian media reacted strongly to Donald Trump's U.S. military operation against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend.
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>A Russian newspaper branded Donald Trump the "President of War" following a U.S. military operation against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. Putin on Monday condemned the U.S. strikes as "an absolutely unprovoked act of aggression against Iran." "It has no basis or justification," Putin said, according to Kremlin newswire Tass. Trump "violated his election promise to be the president of peace, not war," the newspaper said.
Rossiskaya Gazeta, a state-run publication, mocked Trump's campaign slogan with the headline: "Trump Makes America Wage War Again."<
Moscow rightfully criticizes Donald Trump as a warmonger while ignoring its own unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
The Russian president said Ukraine must recognize 2022 referenda results in four regions he claims to have annexed.
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>Ukraine risks renewed armed conflict in the future if it does not recognize the results of referenda ballots Moscow held in 2022 in four Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to have annexed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Sky News Arabia. The Russian president said Kyiv should recognize the referenda denounced as shams that Moscow said cemented its claim in the oblasts of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk. Putin, meanwhile, illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Russia does not fully occupy the four regions and the ballots were condemned internationally as shams.<
Sorry Putie, international law does not recognize elections/referenda held in regions that are militarily occupied by foreign soldiers.
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>"As part of efforts to degrade the enemy's offensive capabilities, on the night of June 23, units of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in coordination with the Rocket Forces and Artillery, struck the Atlas oil depot in Russia's Rostov region," the Ukrainian General Staff reported. According to the agency, the facility is used to supply fuel and lubricants to Russian military units involved in the armed aggression against Ukraine in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.<
Destroy 4 Russian sites connected to its war effort each and every day.