Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kyiv of conducting terror attacks on Russian territory to derail the ongoing peace efforts, warning that Zelensky was losing the war and the grip on power. During his government meeting, Putin said that the recent sabotage of railway bridges in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk Regions was a deliberate strike on civilians intended to disrupt the negotiations.
“Zelensky is fearful of losing power if the war ends tomorrow, and his western backers have become accomplices to terrorists,” Putin said, and added that the attacks were the result of decisions made by Ukraine’s top political leadership, calling them “undoubtedly a terrorist act.”
“This only confirms our concern that the already illegitimate regime in Kyiv, which once seized power, is gradually turning into a terrorist organisation, and its sponsors are becoming accomplices to terrorists,” he said. The two back-to-back attacks occurred on Saturday and Sunday morning. In the Bryansk Region, a bridge collapsed in front of a moving passenger train. In the Kursk Region, a freight train derailed when a railway bridge gave way. In total, seven people were killed and over 120 were injured.
“Under all international norms, such actions are called terrorism,” Putin said, warning that if Kyiv wants to continue the war, we will give them what they desire.” Reflecting upon the losses suffered in the war, Putin said Russia suffered very few losses compared to Ukraine, as they are conscripting young children to fight against Russian forces in the war.
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“Today, amid heavy losses and retreating along the entire line of contact, the Kyiv leadership has turned to organising terrorist acts in an attempt to intimidate Russia,” Putin said. He questioned the competence of Ukraine’s leadership, under whose orders the Ukrainian armed forces have suffered “senseless and enormous losses."
“What kind of authority can the leaders of a thoroughly rotten and completely corrupt regime possess?” Putin added. Putin called Kiev’s railway sabotage an “intentional strike on the [Russian] civilian population" and promised a firm response in return for those twin drone attacks conducted by Ukrainian forces.
Putin said that it was Kyiv that requested a 30- to 60-day ceasefire; however, two days before the second round of negotiations were supposed to begin, Ukraine conducted the drone attacks, showing they had no legitimate interest in negotiations.
“But how can such meetings be held under these conditions?” he said. “What is there to talk about? Who conducts negotiations with those who rely on terror, with terrorists?” He warned that any pause would only allow the Ukrainian forces to regroup, receive more Western arms, and prepare for renewed hostilities.
“It does not surprise us and only convinces us further that today’s Kiev regime does not want peace at all,” he stated. “For them, peace most likely means a loss of power.” Putin also accused the Ukrainian leadership of lacking basic political culture, pointing to recent public remarks. This week, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky referred to Russia’s negotiators as “idiots” after Moscow proposed a brief truce to recover fallen soldiers’ bodies.
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