MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Kiev’s attacks will not hinder presidential election in Russia as they will only consolidate the people, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"These attacks, pointless from the military point of view and criminal from the humanitarian point of view, as has been said, are geared to hinder presidential election in Russia. I am convinced that our people will respond to this by being more consolidated," he said at a meeting of the Russian Security Council. "Who do they want to intimidate? The Russian people? The Multiethnic people of Russia?"

According to Putin, all attempts to intimidate Russians are futile. "This has never happened and I am sure will never happen," he stressed.