Putin Blames West for Ukrainian Strikes on Russian Oil Sites as Sanctions Pressure Deepens
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Updated · Ukrainska Pravda · Jun 28
Putin Blames West for Ukrainian Strikes on Russian Oil Sites as Sanctions Pressure Deepens
3 articles · Updated · Ukrainska Pravda · Jun 28
Summary
At a United Russia party congress, Vladimir Putin said Ukrainian "precise strikes" had hit Russian military and oil facilities and accused the West of using Kyiv to destabilize Russia.
Putin said Western elites could not defeat Russia strategically or on the battlefield, so they were escalating sanctions and allegedly recruiting people inside Russia for sabotage and terrorist attacks.
He paired those complaints with a claim that Ukrainian forces were retreating along the entire front, while promising Russia would secure its borders and overcome attacks on its territory and infrastructure.
Putin also repeated broader domestic pledges to lift the economy to a new technological level, raise birth rates and living standards, and expand roads despite what he called a difficult period.