Go to mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 17Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the «active counter-offensive operation» announced by the Kyiv authorities with the words «we'll see how it ends.» The head of state made this statement following the second day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. «The Kyiv authorities announced that they had begun , are conducting an active counter-offensive operation. Well, let's see how it will be, how it will end, «Putin said. The Russian leader stressed that Moscow, for the time being, is responding with restraint to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on infrastructure and terrorist attacks, explaining that more serious measures will be taken , if Kyiv does not understand the inadmissibility of these methods. «Most recently, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a couple of sensitive strikes, we will assume that they are warning. If the situation continues to develop in this way, then the answer will be more serious,» the president said.
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They go to terrorist attacksPutin reproached Kyiv for authorities in the use of terrorist methods, reporting on attempts to stage terrorist attacks on the territory of Russian nuclear facilities. As the head of state specified, now the situation is under control. He also convicted the Ukrainian side of killing officials in the liberated territories. «We see this even in attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia. Including … even attempts to carry out terrorist attacks, if not on the facilities themselves, then around our nuclear facilities, atomic power plants on the territory of Russia,” Putin said. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its ultimate goal the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia itself.
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