In his annual news conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that the military operation in Ukraine has fortified Russia's military and economic standing. He dismissed concerns regarding the impact of Syria's changing political landscape on Moscow's prestige and confidently declared Russia's military as the world's strongest. Putin also challenged Western air defenses by demonstrating Russia's new hypersonic ballistic missile capabilities, provocatively suggesting a strike on Kyiv.
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of key ally Bashar Assad in Syria had hurt Moscow’s prestige, as he held his annual news conference and call-in show Thursday.
Putin, who has held power for nearly a quarter-century and was reelected to another six-year term in February, said the military was “advancing toward achieving our goals” in what he calls the special military operation in Ukraine. Russia is making steady, if slow, advances in Ukraine, but has also suffered embarrassing setbacks. On Tuesday, Lt. Gen Igor Kirillov was killed by a bomb planted outside his apartment building in Moscow — a brazen assassination claimed by Ukraine that brought the conflict once again to the streets of the Russian capital.
In a flourish typical of the marathon news conferences, he asked members of the audience to unfurl a banner presented to him by marines fighting in Kursk as he spoke about Ukraine. In his first comments on Assad’s downfall, Putin said that he hadn’t yet met the former Syrian ruler, whom he has given asylum in Moscow, but plans to. He said will ask him about Austin Tice, an American journalist who went missing in Syria 12 years ago.
Still, Putin denied the events had weakened Moscow, arguing that it has achieved the goal of destroying “terrorist” groups in Syria via an air campaign launched in support of Assad in 2015. He claimed that rebel groups that were fighting against Assad have changed and the West is now ready to establish ties with them.He described Israel as the “main beneficiary” of Assad’s downfall, noting the deployment of Israeli troops in southern Syria.
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