According to Wallstreetcn, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the 22nd that Ukraine's armed forces had continued attacking Russia with missiles and drones over the past 40 days in an attempt to defeat Russia, but that it was "just an adventure" and had not caused any substantive turning point. He also said Russian forces had intensified strikes on Ukrainian enterprises in response to Ukrainian attacks on civilian facilities inside Russia, and that Russia's retaliatory strikes were "more destructive".