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Damaged residential building following Russian shelling attack in Kyiv, Ukraine – 4 May 2022
UKRAINE (77WABC) — Russia may be looking to end its war in Ukraine as of September — this according to Kyiv’s Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense.
Russia’s deadly war has persisted for nearly 70 days with Moscow focusing all its efforts in eastern and southern Ukraine after its forces failed to take Kyiv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to justify the invasion by claiming Russian forces are working to “denazify” and liberate regions he has claimed have been subject to Ukrainian oppression. NATO allies and Ukrainian officials have rejected this attempt to guise his brutal campaign — since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish and was democratically elected.
Defense officials have been sounding the alarm that Putin’s real aim is to bridge Russian-occupied Crimea – which was annexed by Russia in 2014 – with regions in eastern Ukraine that share a border with Russia.
