Putin: Ukraine “Throwing Their Soldiers On Our Minefields, Under Our Artillery Fire, As If They Are Not Their Own Citizens”
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to the BRICS Summit on Tuesday
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of “senselessly turning its own soldiers into cannon fodder,” Russia Today reports. “They are throwing (their soldiers) on our minefields, under our artillery fire, acting as if they are not their own citizens at all. It is astonishing,” Putin said. The Washington Post reported that some NATO states prefer Ukrainians continue “fighting and dying” over “a peace that comes too early.”
Even in the face of relentless attacks by NATO-supplied Ukrainian Army troops, Putin called the situation on the front line ”stable” at a meeting with the acting head of the breakaway Lugansk People’s Republic,
