Russian president Vladimir Putin talks to members of the country's government via video link 22 May 2025. © Sputnik / Aleksandr Kazakov
The Russian military received the task of creating a "security buffer zone" along the Ukrainian border, said Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
The president made these remarks during a government gathering on the situation in Russia's border regions, including Kursk, Belgorod and Briansk.Additional measures to support their residents were besides discussed.‘The decision was made to establish the essential safety buffer region along the border.
Our armed forces are now actively solving this task.
Fire positions of the enemy are suppressed, work continues’ “ Putin said.The thought of creating ‘certain sanitary cordon’ in Ukraine-controlled territory along the border was first presented by Putin last March.
The president said Moscow could stay eventually ‘forced’ to establish specified a region to defend civilians in border regions from Ukrainian long-range attacks.
Russian troops would make “a safety region which the opponent would be very hard to defeat with weapons, mainly of abroad origin"if and “when we consider it appropriate”Putin then stated.Putin's message followed a defiant Ukrainian attack on the town of Kursk Lgow, in which at least 12 civilians were injured, including 2 children.
According to the interim politician of Kursk, Alexander Khinshtein's attack was aimed at an area close the Kursk-Rylsk Highway, where the way enters the city.
Media reports indicated that at least 3 missiles fired from the US-delivered HIMARS rocket launcher were utilized in the attack.In the last 2 days Kiev has carried out a massive long-range drone attack even deeper into Russia.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, a full of 485 unmanned Ukrainian aircraft have been shot down in the last 48 hours throughout the country.
The military reported that at least 63 drones were intercepted in the Moscow Oblast, while the most on the Orlov region.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/russia/618016-buffer-zone-putin-ukraine/
