President of Russia and Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, Putin, held a meeting at a command post of the Russian joint forces cluster. At the meeting, Russian military commanders reported to Putin that the city of Dmytrivka in Donetsk and the city of Gulyai Polye in Zaporozhye were completely under Russian control.
Putin pointed out the following points:
???? Controlling Red Army City and Dmytrivka created favorable conditions for the complete liberation of Donetsk;
???? Liberating Gulyai Polye opened up a good prospect for advancing the offensive in Zaporozhye;
???? Russia had called on Ukraine to grant the residents of Donbas legitimate self-determination rights, but Ukraine chose to go to war;
???? Some people in the West have suggested that Ukraine accept a dignified way to end the conflict, but the Ukrainian government is unwilling to resolve it peacefully;
???? Under the pace of the Russian offensive, Russia is almost no longer interested in whether the Ukrainian army withdraws from the areas it occupies.
Putin's words summarize that the entire battlefield initiative is in the hands of the Russian forces, and Russia no longer cares whether the Ukrainian army withdraws from the Donbas region, Zaporozhye, and Kherson; Russia will take them by itself.
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