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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Russia’s Putin to make first foreign trip since launching Ukraine war



Russia’s Putin to make first foreign trip since launching Ukraine war




Russian President Vladimir Putin's last known trip outside Russia was a visit to the Beijing in early February. — Reuters pic


LONDON, June 26 —Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since ordering the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's Feb. 24 invasion has killed thousands of people, displaced millions more and led to severe financial sanctions from the West, which Putin says are a reason to build stronger trade ties with other powers such as China, India and Iran.


Pavel Zarubin, the Kremlin correspondent of the Rossiya 1 state television station, said Putin would visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo for talks in Moscow.

In Dushanbe, Putin will meet Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon, a close Russian ally and the longest-serving ruler of a former Soviet state. In Ashgabat, he will attend a summit of Caspian nations including the leaders of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan, Zarubin said.


Putin's last known trip outside Russia was a visit to the Beijing in early February, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a "no limits" friendship treaty hours before both attended the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games.


Russia says it sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 to degrade its neighbour's military capabilities, keep it from being used by the West to threaten Russia, root out nationalists and defend Russian-speakers in eastern regions. Ukraine calls the invasion an imperial-style land grab. — Reuters



2 comments:

  1. Puting essentially can only conveniently travel within Eurasia right now.
    Anywhere else, Puting's aircraft would have to make long, embarrassing detours, zig-zags, dog-legs and multiple refueling stops to get around obstacle courses of proscribed sanctioned airspace.

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    1. Wakakaka…

      What a inconsequential fart AGAIN!

      Does Putin need to travel overseas?

      Why so many US officers r moving all-over the world to gain/enforce supports?

      Who is having a more tiring military/political agendas?

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