Putin will set this Wednesday the objectives of the Russian army in 2023

President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Some 15,000 Russian military officials will participate in the meeting via videoconference.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will set the objectives of his army in 2023 in a meeting with senior military commanders scheduled for this Wednesday, the Kremlin announced on Tuesday, in the ninth month of the offensive in Ukraine.

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“Vladimir Putin will hold an extended meeting of the Russian Ministry of Defense (…) The results of the activities of the Russian armed forces in 2022 will be summarized, and the tasks for the coming year will be defined”the Kremlin said in a statement.

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will participate in the meeting “to report on the development of the special military operation” in Ukraine and the deliveries of weapons to the armed forces, the Kremlin added.

Some 15,000 officials of the Russian army will participate in this meeting by videoconference, according to the presidency.

Putin admitted on Tuesday that the situation was “extremely difficult” in the four regions of southern and eastern Ukraine. of which Moscow claims the annexation (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia), despite not fully controlling them.

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Russia, which launched its offensive in Ukraine in February, has suffered in recent months a series of military setbacks that forced it to retire from the Kharkov region in northeastern Ukraine, and from the city of Kherson in the south.

AFP