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MOSCOW, Oct 27 It was necessary to start a special military operation, as Ukraine was preparing for another military operations and did not stop the shelling of Donbass, it was impossible to wait in such conditions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. operations by the Kyiv regime, continue and are inevitable? … Why wait until they start? We know that they are being prepared. This is just the inevitable logic of events, «the head of state said at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club. Putin noted that a few more years — and for Russia there would be a completely different situation for a special operation in Ukraine, given the supply of weapons there and the construction of fortified areas. “These fortified areas would not only be along the line of contact today in the Donbass, they would be everywhere … And in the conditions, if for a few more years in Ukraine they created fortified areas and conducted exercises, they would accumulate weapons systems there that never existed, and now no, it never has been – it would have been a completely different situation for Russia, even in terms of conducting this special military operation,” Putin said. >Putin: special operation was necessary to fight the Nazis in Ukraine