Renew the president Russian Vladimir Putin Ukraine is accused of carrying out the attack on the Crimean bridge on Saturday, which links the Russian mainland to the peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.
He also accused Kyiv of targeting Russian regions and territories, and trying to blow up a Turkish pipeline, promising a stronger response, in reference to to heavy bombardment Earlier on Monday, it targeted dozens of Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kyiv.
We will have a stronger response
“We will have a stronger response if Ukraine continues to target Russian territory,” he said in a speech broadcast on state television.
He also stressed that “it is impossible to leave the crimes of the Kyiv regime unanswered,” noting that “the response will be the same as the imminent threats,” as he put it.
Destruction in a Ukrainian city as a result of Russian bombing (AFP)
precision weapons
Commenting on the Russian bombing, Putin confirmed that his country’s forces carried out intensive strikes, with precision weapons and long-range missiles, on the infrastructure in Ukraine.
He also clarified that those strikes were carried out with long-range missiles and affected infrastructure in the fields of energy, communications and defense.
This came, after intense Russian bombardment targeted the capital, Kyiv, as well as “several” other cities this morning, such as the cities of Lviv, Dnipro and Ternopil, as well as Kharkiv and Zaporizhia as well.
Electricity cuts were recorded in almost all parts of the country, before returning to most cities.
It is noteworthy that these attacks were recorded after several warnings that Moscow might escalate its military strikes, in response to the incident that occurred on the Crimean Bridge last Saturday, in which it blamed the Ukrainian intelligence.