Putin Says Kyiv Sought 4-Oblast War Limit as He Rejects Halt to Deep Strikes
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Updated · Ukrainska Pravda · Jun 29
Putin Says Kyiv Sought 4-Oblast War Limit as He Rejects Halt to Deep Strikes
3 articles · Updated · Ukrainska Pravda · Jun 29
Summary
Putin said Ukraine proposed confining combat to four oblasts—Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk—while stopping deep strikes on both sides, presenting it as a new peace overture from Kyiv.
He said he would not accept the idea, arguing it would let Ukrainian forces pull units from Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Sumy regions and redeploy them to the main front.
Putin cast the proposal as evidence of a "catastrophic" manpower shortage in Ukraine and said Russia's long-range strikes are more destructive, echoing his earlier rejection of a mutual halt to long-range attacks.
He also claimed Russian troops are advancing across the front, with a little over 10 km to Sumy and 2.5 to 5 km to Kupiansk, while reiterating Moscow's goal of seizing all of Donbas and "Novorossiya."