We will achieve our goals by force in Ukraine if it does not want peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine is in no hurry to achieve peace, and if it does not want to resolve the conflict peacefully, Moscow will achieve all its goals by force.

Putin’s statements yesterday, Saturday, which were reported by the official news agency (TASS), came in the wake of a large-scale Russian attack with drones and missiles, to which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded, saying that Moscow is showing its desire to continue the war while Kiev wants peace.

Zelensky is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, seeking to reach a solution to end the war that began about four years ago.

The Kremlin said earlier via the Telegram application that military commanders informed Putin during his inspection of one of the Armed Forces command centers that Russian forces took control of the towns of Mirnohrad, Rudinsky and Artemivka in the Ukrainian Donetsk region, as well as the towns of Holypol and Stepnohirsk in the Zaporizhzhya region.

But the Ukrainian army said that its forces were confronting Russian attempts to advance in the vicinity of Mirnohrad and Holypol, describing Moscow’s assertions regarding them as false. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement on social media that the situation in the two towns remains “difficult” but that Ukrainian forces are still carrying out “defensive operations.”