2026/6/29 11:01 (Updated 6/29 11:36) Please agree to our privacy policy to enable the news listening function. Houses in Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukraine, caught fire on the 22nd due to a nighttime Russian drone strike. (Reuters) (Central News Agency, Moscow, 28th, comprehensive foreign news report) Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the Russian army will continue to advance the established military goals of comprehensively seizing four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine, and rejected Ukraine’s new proposal to stop long-range strikes in each other’s interior to reduce the conflict. Reuters reported that Vladimir Putin also said in an exclusive interview with Russian state-run television that Russia must improve its air defense capabilities in response to Ukraine’s recent intensification of drone attacks targeting the Russian oil industry. He also said that Russia has properly handled the fuel supply problem caused by the Ukrainian army’s attack. Putin said in an exclusive interview that Ukraine proposed that the two sides stop long-range strikes against each other as a step towards peace, but Moscow believes that this is just a delaying measure to reduce the pressure on Kiev’s troops on the 1,250-kilometer front line, and Russia will not be disturbed by this. “The purpose of this proposal is obvious, because our counterattacks against targets deep in Ukraine are more intense, more significant and, frankly, more destructive. Given the severe manpower shortage of the Ukrainian armed forces, they obviously think this may be their lifeline. But saving the regime in Kiev is not in our plans,” Putin said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. Zelensky sent a letter to Putin this month proposing face-to-face talks, but Putin rejected it. Putin said in an exclusive interview that Ukraine’s attack “is aimed at distracting our attention and forces from our main goal of completely liberating Donbas and Novorossiya.” He was referring to the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts in the Donbass region, as well as the neighboring Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. Putin has long insisted that Ukraine must give up its remaining strongholds in the Donetsk region as an important prerequisite for any peace deal. Russia announced the annexation of the above-mentioned four states about seven months after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but currently only has substantial control over some of the above-mentioned areas. Putin also said that when Washington is no longer focused on Iran and the conflict in the Middle East, he expects US President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to visit Moscow again. In addition, Putin also hinted that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who held two days of talks with him this week, may help promote peace negotiations. (Compiled by: Liu Wenyu) 1150629 Support the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of support to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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