The Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated on Wednesday that the military operation in Ukraine may go on for a while. Russia Today (RT) reported that President Putin made the comment in a meeting with the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
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While addressing a question about the duration of hostilities that in neighboring Ukraine, Putin said that achieving all the objectives will take time, but pointed to what he called, several major gains already won.
Putin stated, “Of course, this might be a lengthy process,” {referring to the war in Ukraine}, he however insisted that the conflict really began in 2014, when Western backed protester forced the then elected President out of office and caused him to flee Ukraine.
He contended that Moscow had little choice but to intervene in February, to defend the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk – which have since voted to join Russia, along with most of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
“These new territories are a major gain for Russia,” the president said. “Even Peter the Great sought access to the Azov Sea, and it is now an internal sea of the Russian Federation.”
“Most importantly, the people who live there showed in a referendum that they want to be in Russia and feel they are part of our world,” Putin said. “They are now with us, millions of them, and that is the greatest outcome.”
Peter I most commonly known as Peter the Great, was a Russian monarch who is recorded to have ruled the Tsardom of Russia from 7 May1682 to 1721 and subsequently the Russian Empire until his death in 1725, jointly ruling with his elder half-brother, Ivan V until 1696.
He is primarily credited with the modernisation of the country, transforming it into a European power. He founded the city of Saint Petersburg on 27 May 1703, on the site of a captured Swedish fortress on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea.
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