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Putin on Ukraine drone attacks.
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Kiev has stepped up drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure and civilian targets amid continued setbacks on the battlefield.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that any Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory will be met with significantly stronger retaliation.

Putin made the remarks on Monday while addressing the ‘All for Victory!’ forum organized by the All-Russian People’s Front, where he discussed the Ukraine conflict and Moscow’s response to Western backing for Kiev.

“Our response will always mirror any strike on Russian territory. We will respond in kind – only several times more powerfully,” Putin said. “The enemy will feel it. They already do, I hope. And they will feel it even more in the future.”

Russia’s strength lies in its ability to overcome “every difficulty and every challenge,” while the “Russophobic” part of the collective West continues to wage a campaign against the country, Putin said.



Despite the pressure, Russia is “developing its economy, strengthening its financial system, modernizing its Armed Forces and expanding its defense industry,” he said, adding that these efforts are already changing “the situation on the battlefield.”

“Our fighters are advancing,” Putin said. “That is why there is no doubt we will achieve victory.”

Ukraine has intensified drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure and residential areas in recent months amid continued setbacks on the battlefield, launching several hundred UAVs a day on average. FPV drones, including AI-assisted models, have increasingly targeted passenger buses and private vehicles.

In late June, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky announced a 40-day pressure campaign, combining long-range strikes and clandestine operations aimed at inflicting economic damage on Russia.

Moscow has condemned the attacks as indiscriminate acts of terrorism intended to distract from Ukraine’s battlefield setbacks, responding with an expanded campaign of long-range strikes.

Most Russian strikes in recent weeks have focused on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, targeting military-industrial facilities, drone assembly and storage sites, and weapons depots.

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  1. Let us not forget that Russia’s closest ally is China. Supplying an endless volume of drones, intelligence and other military equipment.

    What is NATO’s strategy exactly? Western governments hate thier politicians. Blue lazer treatment in Hawaii and Los Angeles. UK, Framce and Europe allowing boat people at the expense of the locals. Even the King has appointed himself as the keeper of all faiths.

    It’s about bizarre as you can get. I wouldn’t expect too much support from western citizens for a war against Russia.

    • Its not their war, its one driven by corrupt Western globalists and their quislings. Why would anyone in the West want throw their lives away shielding these a-holes.

    • BTW the electronics in drones used by Ukraine and Russia is from China in many instances. No friends in business!

  2. This will be a grinding process for Russia that will slow even further as they advance from their own doorstep. Why?Not just standard logistics. Its because they are taking and holding territory. So they will need people to stay and defend it from re-capture by Ukraine and repair its infrastructure. Quite different from WWII when their focus was on destroying the German army. Then they gained momentum, not this time. I do wonder how this will end? A frozen conflict like Korea, a Ukraine rump state? These are the most likely outcomes.

      • He’s their puppet. This is a war of the West against Russia, by proxy because they didn’t have the numbers or the desire, to take Russia on directly.

  3. https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/af8db713_un_security_council/
    So West continues with the larger and larger scale of attacks. In the last 2 months this is an ope warfare hittin the targets deep inside Russia and even reaching the outskirts of Moscow.
    There is more and more pressure on Putin for being too soft we are seeing an all out attack on Russia organized by the ‘collective West’.
    And they are accusing Russia for ‘Escalation’. !!????
    Anyway watch this that;s all you can do. Russia will have to finally hit the targets in Europe where all those attacks are coming from . All missiles, all drones are manufactured in Germany, Britain, France and similar places. What is stopping Russia to finally respond!!!.
    And the MSM will than say that ‘Russia has attacked Europe’!!
    Again the sam playbook pretend that the West is doing nothing and when the Russia after many years finally responds than accuse Russia for ‘Aggression’. !!!
    The West is devious, pervert and totally satanic. !!!
    Initially Russia will be carefully choosing military targets only. However this could lead to something much much bigger.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsrY_e4BeM
    The West is rotten to the core and corrupt beyond belief.

    The head of the Press group of the German Embassy in Moscow, Lena Hilmaier, posted on social media a video filmed in Russian in front of a gas station in Moscow. The central message of the video was a call to ” end the aggressive war against Ukraine.” “Russians, you’re losing the war, missiles are falling on your oil refineries, the Kremlin is in a panic, the only option is to stop everything, just stop it.”In other words, this is a sincere message from the Reichsbundskanzleraj: the Russians, we are ready to accept your capitulation.
    Russian military reporter Yuri Kotenok said that such an appearance by the German official is not a personal position or a private initiative, but a procedure that he interprets as open interference in Russia’s internal affairs.

    So now German officials are openly calling Russia to ‘capitulate’. !!

  4. I think Russia has been very reserved till now. The body language has shifted with the warning.

    The drones factories are in Poland.

  5. Russia has been trying to keep the humans above ground because as well we know, the many bio-labs in Ukraine and Eastern Europe were, are and will be a threat to humanity. The augmented maybe will survive for a while but with no souls of their own they will have no real substance.
    The huge manufactured sporting diversion of the people’s attention can only last so long. Many already see the connection between the disgusting practices hinted at via a few of the Epstein files and the manufacture and shipping of armaments.
    Governments still feeding into money laundering channels for neo nazi enterprises are a danger to the planet. Their deviousness will render our entire ecosystem defunct to the point of non tradeability & of no interest to the so called aliens awaiting ‘disclosure’.

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