Putin calls Ukrainian military strikes a "terrorist act"; denies Russia targets civilians

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that a series of Ukrainian missile strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod that killed 20 people and wounded 111 was "a terrorist act" that would not go unpunished and promised more strikes on Ukrainian targets.

Speaking at a meeting with servicemen at a military hospital in Moscow, Putin said that the strikes, which came amid intensified Russian air assaults against Ukrainian cities Kyiv and Kharkiv, "will not go unpunished."

Putin said that Russia would continue to strike "sensitive" military targets in Ukraine. Russia denies Western and Ukrainian accusations that it targets civilian infrastructure.

In a wide-ranging conversation with the servicemen, Putin said that the course of the war in Ukraine was changing in Russia's favour and that Moscow hoped to end the conflict, but only on its terms.

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