Plans are underway for Russia to intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine after an unprecedented attack on the city of Belgorod on Saturday.
Twenty-four people were confirmed dead with over 100 others wounded in Belgorod, Russia, on Saturday. Earlier, Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukrainian cities.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia was quoted as saying, “We’re going to intensify the strikes. No crime against civilians will rest unpunished. That’s for certain.”
Ukraine carried out an attack on Russia, saying that the latter had hit it with a record number of drones on New Year’s Day.
Putin, on Monday during a visit to a military hospital, said Russia will press on with hitting military installations.
The President of Russia said, “We are doing that today, and tomorrow we will continue doing it.”
Putin accused Ukrainian forces of targeting “right in the city centre where people were walking before New Year’s Eve.”
He claimed that Ukraine is being used by the West to “settle its problems” with Russia, adding that he believed the “strategic initiative” in the dragging conflict was on the Russian side.
“In any case that is how I am being briefed and I always insist: any offensive operations should be done after a defeat of the enemy,” he said, according to the Interfax news agency.
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