Putin considers that the conflict in Ukraine can be prolonged, but rules out another mobilization

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  • The Russian leader points out that the results of the “special military operation” will take time to be seen

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinconsidered this Wednesday that the so-called “special military operation” against Ukraine could lengthen in time, but ruled out a new campaign to mobilize reservists. “Of course, this can be a lengthy process,” Putin said in a video conference with members of the Human Rights Council of Russiawhose members are related to the Russian ruling party and received direct instructions from the Kremlin to “do not disturb” to Putin with questions about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. One of the key questions was asked by Tatiana Merzlyakova, the human rights commissioner of the Sverdlovsk region. “Will there be another wave of mobilization? What do we have to prepare for?” he specifically asked the Russian president. He replied that for the moment “it will not be necessary“.

On March 8, Women’s Day, Putin himself promised to Russian women that their brothers, husbands or sons would not be mobilized. However, when she announced that the Army needed her reservists in september, assured that he was “forced”. About these same soldiers called in the partial mobilization of the months of September and October, he pointed out that of “the 300,000, 150,000 are in the area of ​​operation“. Of those who are at the front, he said that half are in “combat units” and the rest in “second and third lines, fulfilling defensive tasks“. This same Wednesday the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, announced the installation of anti-tank barriers in the same region.

Nuclear weapons

Putin recalled during the video conference that the nuclear threat “is growing“. “We have not gone crazy, we are aware of what are atomic weapons“, he said, adding that “Russia will not attack (with nuclear weapons) in first place under any circumstances”. He also pointed out that “the results of the special military operation (as the Kremlin calls the offensive) can be manifested after a long time“. He added that during it “new territories were won”, referring to the annexed territories of southern and eastern Ukraine. He also asserted that it is an important issue to control the sea ​​of ​​azovwhich according to him has become “a russian inland sea“.

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