The two visits, about 500 miles apart, highlighted the nearly 13-month-old war’s repercussions for international diplomacy as countries line up behind Moscow or Kyiv.
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Putin welcomes China’s Xi to Kremlin as Russia wages war against Ukraine
China looks to Russia as a source of oil and gas for its energy-hungry economy, and as a partner in standing up to what both see as U.S. domination of global affairs.
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Putin makes surprise trip to Mariupol, symbol of Ukrainian tenacity
The visits to annexed territory were a show of defiance by the Russian leader two days after a court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.
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Russia, Ukraine extend grain deal to aid world’s poor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows the grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia where hunger is a growing threat.
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International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin
The court said Putin ‘is allegedly responsible for the crime of unlawful deportation’ of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation.
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Slovakia will send entire fleet of MiG-29 jets to Ukraine
The eastern NATO member state will send all 13 of its MiG-29 jets – grounded since last August and in various states of readiness – at an unspecified date.
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China’s Xi to meet Putin as Beijing seeks bolder global role
Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to visit Russia in an apparent show of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin amid sharpening East-West tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.
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Russia will honor pilots involved in U.S. drone incident
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu lauded them for preventing the drone from flying into the area that Moscow has banned for flights.
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Pentagon video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on U.S. drone
The 42-second video, released Thursday, shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the MQ-9 drone and beginning to release fuel as it passes.
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U.S., Russia ratchet up rhetoric, even as military chiefs talk, over downed drone
That the 2 nations are talking underscored the seriousness of the encounter over the Black Sea between Russian jets and a U.S. surveillance drone.