Putin Vows to Intensify Strikes on Ukraine After Ukrainian Attacks on Russian Infrastructure — UNITED24 Media

Russia will intensify its strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, declared on Friday, June 12, at a meeting with participants and veterans of the so-called ” special military operation ”  against Ukraine.

His remarks were reported by The Moscow Times, which cited the Russian state news agency Interfax.

“Bearing in mind what they are doing, we must, and this is the next task, respond to them properly. And we are doing this, and we will increase our strikes on the enemy’s infrastructure,” Putin stated.

Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure have centered on the power grid and heating networks, intensifying through successive winters. Moscow typically combines waves of Shahed-type attack drones with cruise and ballistic missiles to overwhelm air defenses and degrade civilian energy supply.

Putin acknowledged that Ukrainian forces had hit Russian oil refineries, ports, and fuel-and-energy facilities more than 80 times since the start of the year, inflicting damage on the Russian economy. “But everything recovers quickly for us. They will not be able to create any serious problems for us,” he added.

Those Ukrainian strikes have reached deep into Russian territory. In May, nearly 600 Ukrainian strike drones targeted Moscow and surrounding military-industrial sites, in one of the largest aerial assaults on Russian soil since the start of the full-scale war.

He claimed that Russia now confronts what he called the “so-called collective West,” embodied by the NATO bloc, on its own. The alliance, he emphasized, would fail to divide Russian society or inflict damage on the economy.

Putin also noted that Russian forces continue to advance along the front, if more slowly than he would like.

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