We may respond in kind to Western nations that let Kyiv strike Russia with their missiles, Putin
BlogospherePresident Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (June 5) that Moscow would consider responding in kind directly against Western nations that allowed Ukraine to strike Russia with their long-range missiles. Putin was speaking to international news agency editors in St Petersburg.
Putin was asked about Russia's military losses in Ukraine. "I can tell you with absolute certainty that our losses...are of course several times less than on the Ukrainian side," Putin said.
"It is this, by the way, that the attempt to carry out total mobilisation in Ukraine is linked with, because (their) battlefield losses are very high... According to our calculations, the Ukrainian army loses about 50,000 people a month," the Russian president added.