Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on securing fuel supplies for the domestic market in Moscow, Russia, on June 28, 2026.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday (June 28, 2026) that Russia needed greater anti-aircraft capacity to confront Ukrainian drone strikes on oil infrastructure, but added that the country was coping well with the problems the attacks had caused.
“The first task is to quickly and significantly ramp up production of those air defence systems that are most needed,” Mr. Putin said in a Russian television interview.
He said Russia would not allow the Ukrainian strikes to detract from Moscow’s plans to advance on the front lines of the more than four-year-old conflict.
“All the strikes, wherever they hit our infrastructure, absolutely do not affect the situation on the front, on the line of combat contact,” he said.
Published – June 29, 2026 01:38 am IST
