Thread by @generalsvr_en

#Putin's Thoughts on #Belgorod

On Friday 2 June, #Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council via videoconference. After the main part of the meeting, several reports were heard and...
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discussed and current issues were discussed in a closed-door format. The main topic of the reports was the tense situation in the #Belgorod region, where, according to the зresident, "sabotage groups are constantly wandering as if they were at home", and...
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several settlements are under constant shelling. It should be recalled that earlier, #Putin spoke about similar problems in the #Belgorod Region, saying that mainly #Ukrainians live there, so let them "kill" each other, it is not a problem.
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Today, the president's opinion has not changed much and despite the deteriorating situation in the #Belgorod region, he is in no hurry to resolve the problems. At the end of the meeting, #Putin did not approve any decisions, merely promising to think about...
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the options that had been put forward. Speakers at the meeting drew the president's attention to the tendency for similar problems to worsen in other regions bordering #Ukraine as well, but he did not want to discuss these issues, making it clear that...
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he considers the situation in other border regions to be within the norm. It should be noted that for the last few months, #Putin has only been promising to think and make some decisions on the main problems related to the "special military operation" and...
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has not done anything, letting the problems go unfettered. The president, unlike in the early months of the war, is no longer involved in the problems at the front, is not involved in the leadership of the "special military operation" and only demands tangible results.
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