Vladimir Putin says Russia has no Kharkiv capture plans and just wants to create a buffer zone

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but he has no plans to capture the city.
Speaking to reporters on Friday on a visit to Harbin, China, Mr Putin said that Moscow launched attacks in the Kharkiv region in response to the Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region.
“I have said publicly that if it continues we will be forced to create a security zone, a sanitary zone,” he said.
Mr Putin said Russian troops were “advancing daily in according to plan”.
He added that Russia has no plans to capture Kharkiv for now.
Mr Putin’s comments on his trip to China were his first on the offensive launched on May 10, which opened a new front in the war and displaced thousands of Ukrainians within few days.
It came hours after a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russian-occupied Crimea early on Friday caused power cutoffs in the city of Sevastopol while damaging aircraft and fuel storage at an airbase.
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[@bobbybates2614]

Lies a buffer zone is neutral he intends to ocupie kharkiv

[@RichardHubbuck]

Just like he only wanted to take those two Russian-speaking regions back.
Pull the other one, Vladdy.

[@user-rv5dr8oy5b]

Харків теж "російськомовне місто".З такими формулюваннями можна віддати Путіну всю Україну🤬🤡

[@Jm73-kt3jj]

Abuffer zone in ukraine? That should not happen ! How can putin dictate in another mans land? No way

[@kenwetherell9025]

Putin talks a whole load of shit didn't he say he will take Ukraine in 2 weeks and 2 years later and he's got nowhere😂 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@itz_redgi9624]

When did he say he will take Ukraine in 2 weeks ?😂 show me the video

[@kenwetherell9025]

@@itz_redgi9624 that was the plan from Russia he also said it you obviously don't watch the news then properly

[@itz_redgi9624]

@@kenwetherell9025 The only thing Putin said about plan was the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine nothing else, and again show me the video where he said he will take Ukraine in 2 weeks.