President Putin said 700,000 Russian troops in special military operation
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that 700,000 soldiers participated in the special military operation.
According to RIA Novosti, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 18 that more than 700,000 Russian Armed Forces soldiers are stationed along the line of contact in the special operations zone.
"There are more than 700,000 people on the line," the Russian leader said at a meeting with political party leaders in the State Duma.
Meanwhile, on the same day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that the US wants to remove the Ukraine issue from the agenda to remove obstacles to economic and other normal relations with Russia.
Responding to these statements, Ukrainian parliamentarian Artem Dmitruk said on his Telegram channel that the US withdrawal from the conflict resolution process in Ukraine will lead to serious problems for the country.
“All this is extremely bad for Ukraine. After all, it could have become an economic phenomenon, a transit bridge between Russia, the West and the East, a world-class industrial and cultural center. But the leaders Yushchenko, Poroshenko, Zelensky and ourselves turned the country into an ‘anti-Russian’ project, and now it is simply thrown away like garbage,” – wrote deputy Dmitruk.
The US Vice President noted that the US withdrawal from the Ukraine crisis is obvious, because Washington's important task now is to build normal economic and diplomatic relations with Russia.