Putin wants to visit injured soldiers - Kremlin denies speculation about big Ukraine announcement

Created: 2022-05-25Updated: 2022-05-25 13:17

Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the military parade on May 9, the "Day of Victory" over Nazi Germany.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to visit surprised soldiers in Moscow.

Even before that, speculation ran rampant - the Kremlin denied it.

Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit soldiers injured in the Ukraine war in a hospital in Moscow on Wednesday (May 25, 2022).

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed speculation that a new strategy for the attacks in Ukraine would be announced during the visit.

"He visits them and talks to them," Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency.

Putin's spokesman sticks to Kremlin position in Ukraine war: "There are no new stages"

Moscow continues to officially refer to the war against Ukraine as a "special military operation".

There are "no new moments and stages" in the "military operation," said the Kremlin spokesman.

He visits them and talks to them.

Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, on Vladimir Putin's planned visit to soldiers 

"The President is constantly interested in the issue of how to care for those who were injured during the military special operation - and he also controls it," Peskov said.

Putin's first visit to wounded soldiers since the start of the Ukraine war

It is Putin's first visit to the injured since the war broke out in late February.

The Russian side is anyway extremely sparse information on the dead and injured on their own side.

The Ministry of Defense last published figures at the end of March.

According to this, 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed and 3,825 injured in Ukraine.

Kyiv, on the other hand, puts the number of Russians killed at almost 30,000.

The information cannot be independently verified.