Putin vows to press attack on Ukraine; courts India, China

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Friday to press his attack on Ukraine despite Ukraine’s latest counteroffensive and warned that Moscow could ramp up its strikes on the country’s vital infrastructure if Ukrainian forces target facilities in Russia.

Speaking to reporters Friday after attending a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan, Putin said the “liberation” of Ukraine’s entire eastern Donbas region remained Russia’s main military goal and that he sees no need to revise it.

“We aren’t in a rush,” the Russian leader said, adding that Moscow has only deployed volunteer soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Some hard-line politicians and military bloggers have urged the Kremlin to follow Ukraine’s example and order a broad mobilization to beef up the ranks, lamenting Russia’s manpower shortage.

Russia was forced to pull back its forces from large swaths of northeastern Ukraine last week after a swift Ukrainian counteroffensive. Ukraine’s move to reclaim control of several Russian-occupied cities and villages marked the largest military setback for Moscow since its forces had to retreat from areas near the capital early in the war.



Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)


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[PortTack]

1. What isn't mentioned here is that Xi and the prime minister of India openly snubbed Putin at the

Shanghai mtg. They want the war to end NOW!

[maxsolomon]

4. they obliquely referred to wanting and end to the war.

at least Modi did. i wouldn't say it was a snub.

they're both continuing to prop Russia's economy up through oil & gas purchases.

[SuperCoder]

2. Where did India Come from?

There is no mention of India in the copied and pasted portion of the article.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Four paragraph copyright rules, Baby!

The headline suggests India might be mentioned in the text, and it was

Putin also sought Friday to assuage India’s concern about the conflict in Ukraine, telling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Moscow wants to see a quick end to the fighting and alleging that Ukrainian officials won’t negotiate.

[prodigitalson]

3. he's gonna bite their legs off

[maxsolomon]

5. Russia can bring more force to bear.

Heavy bombers have been used sparingly.

Putin is a paranoid sociopath.

[ruet]

6. And NATO Can Give Ukraine Long Range Air Defenses.

If Russia starts to use strategic bombers I would love to see Ukraine pull up to the Russian border and use HIMARS on every population center within range. Fuck these motherfuckers.

[maxsolomon]

8. I wouldn't love to see that.

They're using bombers, just not openly:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russias-secretive-long-range-bomber-operations-against-ukraine

[2live is 2fly]

9. Right on, Russia needs to get it thru its thick fucken skull that the world is getting more adament

strengthening its resolve to fight back. Most of the civilized world is just getting sick & tired of Russia and the infected tumor known as Vladimir Putin.