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Putin insists Russian military offensive in Ukraine ‘going to plan’
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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on February 21, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow’s advance in Ukraine is going “according to plan” and orders large compensations for Russian soldiers killed in the invasion.
“I want to say that the special military operation is going strictly according to schedule, according to plan,” he says, opening a meeting with his security council.
“We are at war with neo-Nazis,” the Russian leader says, adding: “I will never give up on my conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.”
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