The Russian president has addressed the proposal to broaden and extend the Easter ceasefire
Russia targets Ukrainian and foreign armed forces regardless of if they are located in civilian facilities, President Vladimir Putin has said, commenting on the proposal of a broader truce following the Easter ceasefire.
He made the comment in an interview with Russia 1 TV on Monday, answering a question about the results of the recent ceasefire, and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky’s recent idea that the sides declare a bilateral halt on strikes on civilian targets.
“This needs to be sorted out. This is all a subject for a thorough study,” Putin said, adding that Moscow is not ruling out such a decision.
He stressed that Kiev has repeatedly used civilian infrastructure for military needs, and addressed recent Russian long-range attacks on such targets.
“Everybody knows the strike that our armed forces delivered at a congress center of a university in Sumy. Is that a civilian site? Sure. But it was being used to award troops who had committed crimes in Kursk Region,” he said, referring to an incident that occurred earlier this month.
“We consider those people criminals who must face accountability for what they did” during the incursion into the Russian border region, Putin explained. “This was done precisely to punish them.”
Moscow carried out another attack on an agricultural facility in Ukraine’s Odessa Region, where Kiev and its foreign backers were running a weapons testing operation, Putin added.
“The Kiev authorities together with foreign curators and assistants organized, tried to organize, the production and testing of a new missile system,” he said.
“It’s a civilian facility, civilian, but it was used for military purposes.”
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April 21, 2025 at 08:22PM
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