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Sunday, July 16, 2023
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Sunday, July 16, 2023
Putin: Ukraine counteroffensive ‘not successful’
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, July 14, 2023. (Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says Kyiv’s counteroffensive, launched last month to push back Moscow’s forces, is failing.
“All enemy attempts to break through our defenses… they have not succeeded since the offensive began. The enemy is not successful,” Putin says in a televised interview broadcast today.
