I Want The War To End Soon – Putin Speaks As Ukraine Advances, Hits Military Targets Inside Russia

Russia President, Vladimir Putin has said that he wants the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible just as Ukrainian soldiers advanced to recapture occupied territories, hit military targets inside Russia border communities.

Vladimir Putin made the remark while responding to Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and questions about Ukraine war from Chinese President, Xi Jinping at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held at Uzbekistan during the preceding week.

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had told Putin that “today’s era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to you on the phone about this”.

Putin responded that he had heard concerns and questions about the war from the Chinese president. And he wants the war to end as soon as possible.

Washington Post reports details of Ukrainian soldiers successes in reclaiming some of their lands occupied by Russia Army thus:

That Russian citizens are starting to seriously feel the impact of the war directly is another new source of pressure on Putin, who returned home this weekend from a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan where he faced a remarkable public rebuke by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questions about the war from Chinese President Xi Jinping.

After a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeast of the country, the messy war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started is now being fought directly on his doorstep, with artillery strikes hitting military targets in Russia and Russian officials in cities and towns along the border ordering hasty evacuations.

On Saturday, a new round of strikes hit the Belgorod region in Western Russia, killing at least one person and wounding two.

On Friday, Ukraine reportedly struck the base of the Russian 3rd Motorized Rifle Division near Valuyki, just nine miles north of the Russia—Ukraine border. Russian officials did not acknowledge that a military target was hit but said one civilian died, and the local electrical grid experienced a temporary disruption.

Ukraine has made stunning advances in the Kharkiv region, in the northeast of the country, in the past two weeks. During its advances, it has also uncovered hundreds of mass graves and stories of Russian forces terrorizing residents in the liberated city of Izyum.

Ukrainian officials have cited the gains and the evidence of torture and killings to reiterate pleas for modern battle tanks and other heavily armored vehicles which NATO allies have been slow to send.

Russian forces have been depleted after battlefield blunders and are scrambling to find personnel and working equipment to hold their ground in northeastern Ukraine. A recent hasty retreat from Izyum and Balakliya as well as concerns among local Russians who fear the war is coming home appear to have prompted Moscow to reinforce the border with young conscripts.

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— OsazuwaAkonedo (@OsazuwaAkonedo) September 19, 2022

This is lack of diplomacy not humiliation.

— 🇱🇧 (@machour_) September 16, 2022

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— Алишер Абжапаров (@alimir88) September 17, 2022

Russia giving the cold shoulder to Armenia when it asked CSTO for help is unsurprising: For authoritarians such as Putin or Trump, loyalty is not mutual, it's a one way street. It's what little guys owe to their masters but never the other way round.

— Joe Wein 🇺🇦🌻 (@joewein) September 18, 2022

“Izium, Balakliia, Kupiansk – these words sound everywhere,” Zelensky said on Sept. 18. “Mariupol, Melitopol and Kherson will also sound, but even more often and louder when we liberate them.”

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 18, 2022