Hatimae Babu Putin akubali kinachoendelea Ukraine ni vita na sio SMO,kwahiyo ProRussia zile hahari za SMO ziishe kuanzia sasa[emoji23]
Putin calls Ukraine conflict ‘war’ for first time, says he wants to end it
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s goal is to end the conflict in Ukraine, which he referred to as a “war” for the first time since the February invasion.
Putin made the unprecedented comments to Kremlin pool reporters a day after President Biden hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and promised him continued and unwavering support.
“Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war,” Putin said. “We will strive for an end to this, and the sooner the better, of course.”
Putin’s use of the term “war” caused a stir among his critics in Russia, where there is a law on the books — signed by the president himself in March — which prohibits citizens from describing the “special military operation” in Ukraine as a “war” on pain of heavy fines and jail time.
Nikita Yuferev, an opposition councilor from St. Petersburg, has asked prosecutors to investigate Putin for breaking his own law against spreading “deliberately false” information about the armed forces.
Yuferev said he knew his legal challenge would go nowhere, but he had filed it to expose the “mendacity” of the system.
“It’s important for me to do this to draw attention to the contradiction and the injustice of these laws that he [Putin] adopts and signs but which he himself doesn’t observe,” he told Reuters.
“I think the more we talk about this, the more people will doubt his honesty, his infallibility, and the less support he will have,” the councilor added.
In his challenge, filed in an open letter, Yuferev asked the prosecutor general and interior minister to “hold (Putin) responsible under the law for spreading fake news about the actions of the Russian army.”
