Putin admits to ‘complicated’ situation in Russian-occupied Ukraine
by Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#671A8)
Remarks highlight Moscow's growing acknowledgement that invasion is not going to plan
Vladimir Putin has made a rare admission of his country's military challenges in the 10-month-old war in Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited a key city in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has failed to capture despite months of relentless shelling.
In a video message to Russia's security services, Putin said the situation in the four Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions was extremely complicated", and urged security agencies to intensify their efforts to identify traitors, spies and diversionists".
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