Russian head of state participates in high-level military briefing throughout a visit to regions partially occupied by Moscow.
Russian Head Of State Vladimir Putin has actually gone to the military headquarters in the eastern areas of Ukraine, which are partially occupied by Russia, in his second visit to the area in as many months.
Putin participated in an army command conference in the southern Kherson region, the Kremlin stated on Tuesday, as well as heard reports on the circumstance there and also in the Zaporizhia area from leaders of the air-borne forces as well as the “Dnieper” army group as well as other senior policemans.
He also checked out National Guard headquarters in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk area.
The Kremlin also released a video of the browse through, revealing Putin taking a helicopter to Luhansk, however did not say when any one of the meetings happened. On Sunday, Putin remained in Moscow for a meeting with Chinese Protection Minister Li Shangfu.
Kherson as well as Zaporizhia are among four Ukrainian areas Russia annexed last September, although it did not fully control any of the areas, in an action condemned as illegal by Kyiv as well as its allies.
In November, the Russian army pulled back from Kherson, the regional capital as well as the largest city it had caught because its February 2022 invasion. Troops have actually because been reinforcing their placements on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River in expectancy of a restored counteroffensive from Ukraine.
Russian and Ukrainian pressures are presently involved in an extreme fight for control of eastern Bakhmut, a town once called a centre for salt mining and now in damages.
Last Updated: 18 April 2023
