I'm not in a hurry: Putin says Ukraine's victories won't change Russia's plans
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin made his first comments on Friday acknowledging, and then dismissing, Ukraine's recent string of battlefield victories that have seen Russian forces completely collapse and flee the battlefield in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv oblast. A rapidly executed armoured counterattack by the Ukrainian forces saw nearly 8,000 sq km captured in six days.