Putin on Kiev’s ‘terrorism,’ British ‘legitimate targets’ and a ‘military secret’ (KEY REMARKS)

The president has addressed Ukrainian threats to civilian aviation amid battlefield losses, and promised further retaliation for attacks on Russian infrastructure Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlined Russia’s accelerating battlefield gains in Ukraine, denounced Kiev’s increasingly desperate threats to civilian aviation as a bid for “state terrorism,” and warned that British military facilities on Ukrainian soil would be “legitimate targets.”Speaking to reporters in Bishkek, Putin also addressed Moscow’s strikes on ships carrying weapons to Ukraine, contacts with US intelligence and Trump’s envoys, relations with Germany, and what he described as the West’s “sharks of imperialism.”Here are the key takeaways.’The enemy will crumble’Putin said Ukrainian forces are steadily losing ground, while cautioning against predicting exactly when a decisive turning point could come because “war is cruel and difficult to predict.”Russian troops are not merely advancing but “increasing the pace of the offensive,” he said, giving a detailed rundown of developments across the front. Putin said Russian forces are approaching Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka, while claiming that roughly 5...