“We aren’t in a rush,”

 

Putin vows to press attack on Ukraine; courts India, China

“We aren’t in a rush,” the Russian leader said, adding that Moscow has only deployed volunteer soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Some hard-line politicians and military bloggers have urged the Kremlin to follow Ukraine’s example and order a broad mobilization to beef up the ranks, lamenting Russia’s manpower shortage.

(Why should they be in a rush? They don't think like we think, they don't fight like we fight.

"Moscow has only deployed volunteer soldiers to fight in Ukraine."

Sound like a "full scale invasion" to you?)

In his first comment on the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Putin said: “Let’s see how it develops and how it ends.”

“we so far have responded with restraint, but just yet.”

“If the situation develops this way, our response will be more serious,” Putin said.

“Just recently, the Russian armed forces have delivered a couple of impactful strikes,” he said in an apparent reference to Russian attacks earlier this week on power plants in northern Ukraine and a dam in the south. ”Let’s consider those as warning strikes.”