{"id":15044,"date":"2024-03-18T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia.businessupturn.com\/?p=15044"},"modified":"2024-03-18T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:48:09","slug":"ukraine-says-putins-buffer-zone-comment-signals-escalation-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/northern-asia\/russia\/ukraine-says-putins-buffer-zone-comment-signals-escalation-intent\/15044\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says Putin\u2019s \u2018buffer zone\u2019 comment signals escalation intent"},"content":{"rendered":"
A top Ukrainian official stated on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s suggestion of creating a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d inside Ukrainian territory clearly shows that Russia plans to escalate its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

After winning re-election on Sunday, Putin mentioned the idea of establishing a buffer zone, which the Kremlin said would be the only way to protect Russia from attacks by Ukraine.<\/p>\n

So the Ukrainian official sees Putin\u2019s buffer zone proposal as an indication that Russia intends to expand its military operations and aggression against Ukraine further.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nMykhailo Podolyak, an aide to the Ukrainian president, said in a written statement that Putin\u2019s suggestion of creating a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d inside Ukraine is a direct manifestation that the war will only escalate.<\/p>\n

Podolyak stated this is direct evidence that the Russian Federation is not ready to respect the absolute sovereign rights of other countries and participate in modern social and political relations.<\/p>\n

Putin made the buffer zone comment after winning a fifth presidential term in an election that Western nations condemned as a sham and not legitimate.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian official views Putin\u2019s buffer zone idea as proof that Russia intends to intensify the war against Ukraine and has no intention of respecting Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Putin did not provide specifics but said the proposed buffer zone inside Ukraine may need to be large enough to prevent foreign-made weapons from striking Russian territory.<\/p>\n

However, Ukraine has maintained that it only uses its weapons to hit targets in Russia. Some of Ukraine\u2019s key allies like the U.S. have provided arms with the condition they cannot be used inside Russia.<\/p>\n

Last week, Ukraine increased its long-range drone strikes targeting oil refineries in Russia. Additionally, paramilitary groups conducted cross-border attacks from Ukraine into western Russia.<\/p>\n

While Putin cited the need for a buffer zone to stop foreign weapons from hitting Russia, Ukraine claims it has not used foreign-supplied weapons to strike Russian soil, despite escalating its attacks on Russian targets recently.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Ukrainian official views Putin\u2019s proposal for a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in Ukraine as evidence of Russia\u2019s intent to escalate the conflict, dismissing it as a pretext to justify further aggression against Ukraine and disregard for its sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9052,282,78,215],"class_list":["post-15044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-mykhailo-podolyak","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}