Vladimir Putin assured that Russia may want to attack kyiv, but it does now not accomplish that “for various motives” that he cannot display

In a brand new threat, the Russian president has warned that he has the approach to break the Ukrainian capital.

Russia can assault kyiv at any time But it does no longer do so “for diverse reasons” that can't be disclosed publicly, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared final night.

“Russia destroyed in the area of kyiv 5 Patriot (anti-aircraft) structures and why would it be hard for him to smash a building or facility in the center of kyiv? Of direction no longer. But it doesn’t for diverse motives“, insisted the top of the Kremlin, when intervening in a plenary consultation of the International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg.

Putin commented to the American political scientist Dimitri K. Simes, moderator of the consultation, that the reasons for now not attacking Kiev are numerous and that he can list them, but no longer publicly, in step with the Sputnik news employer.

He also considered that kyiv’s assaults in opposition to the Russian province of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, were an try to initiate Moscow to take effective retaliatory moves.

“It became an try to provoke us into taking effective retaliatory actions. It turned into additionally an try to motive harm to the Kremlin and the house of the Russian president,” he stated.

The 26th version of the International Economic Forum is held within the Russian town of Saint Petersburg from June 14 to 17.

Ukraine regains prominence with its offensive

Ukraine is taking the initiative in the conflict and is acquiring “tactical successes” because the counter-offensive actions south, in line with that country’s Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Maliar.

“In actually every zone wherein our units are attacking from the south, they have got recorded tactical successes. They are advancing step by step. For the moment, the improvement is up to 2 kilometers in each path“said the professional.

This Saturday, Russia claims it repelled a Ukrainian drone assault launched towards an oil refinery in the Bryansk vicinity of Russia bordering Ukraine.

“Russian air protection systems inside the Novozibkov district repelled at night time an assault by way of Ukrainian forces at the Druzhba oil refinery“, wrote on Telegram the governor of the Bryansk location, Alexander Bogomaz.

“Thanks to the professionalism of our army (…), 3 drones have been destroyed,” he stated.

Drone assaults in opposition to Russian territory and the Crimean peninsula, annexed by means of Moscow in 2014, have expanded in current weeks after the announcement of a counter-offensive by Ukraine.

Russia said on Thursday it had neutralized 9 drones over Crimea.

On June 9, three human beings have been injured while a drone crashed right into a residential constructing in the Russian town of Voronezh, some 200km from the Ukrainian border.