The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had attended a military command meeting in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region and visited a national guard headquarters in eastern Luhansk
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up heavy artillery bombardments and air strikes on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
A senior Ukrainian presidential aide, Mykhailo Podolyak, took to Twitter to mock Putin’s trip as a “‘special tour’ of the mass murders author in the occupied and ruined territories to enjoy the crimes of his minions for the last time”. While numerous Western leaders have made their way to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky since, Putin has rarely visited parts of Ukraine under Russian control.
“Currently, the enemy is increasing the activity of heavy artillery and the number of air strikes, turning the city into ruins,” the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said in a statement on Tuesday. It was the first time Russia had said it would station nuclear weapons on the territory of another country since the end of the Cold War three decades ago.
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