The first known assault on the city since an unsuccessful mutiny launched 11 days ago by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was the drone attack, which followed previous similar raids on the Russian capital.
Uncertainty swirls around the fate of Prigozhin and his Wagner private military forces, along with the deal they got from the Kremlin, and what the future holds for the Russian defense minister they tried to oust.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed Prigozhin was in Belarus, and said he and some of his troops were welcome to stay “for some time” at their own expense.
In a video released by his ministry, it shows Shoigu flying in a helicopter and then attending a meeting with military officers at a military headquarters in Ukraine.
Although Prigozhin, a top and trustworthy ally of President Vladimir Putin, asserted his decision came in order to avoid "bloodshed" in the country, however, Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Wagner's boss has signed contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin warned his forces would "destroy everything" in their way.
UK military officials stated in their regular assessment that Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March.
Putin said Moscow could respond to alleged Ukrainian incursions and shelling of Russia’s border regions by carving out what he described as a “sanitary zone” to prevent Kyiv from launching such attacks.
It was not immediately clear whether either side benefited from the damage to the dam since both Russian-controlled and Ukrainian-held lands are at risk.
The Belarusian 2020 presidential candidate claimed that Russia has been hiding information in order to give Putin-- a "clean chit" from his alleged involvement.
Kuleba repeated his government's position that Ukraine wouldn't accept any proposal involving the loss of its territories or the “freezing of the conflict.
According to Peskov, Putin was at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside of Moscow at the time. He was not in the Kremlin at the time.
Although there was no mention of any peace talks on Sunday, a statement released by the Kremlin termed the recent visit of Xi as "very productive".
Russia foreign policy: The strategic partnership between India and Russia is based on 5 main pillars- politics, defence, civil nuclear energy, counter-terrorism cooperation, and space. India and Russia celebrated the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations.
The top Russian official stressed that both nations should work to obtain a new medium for payment and added digital payment could be the "most promising" and "most viable" option for both nations.
Although a joint statement released by Russia and China mentioned that both leaders had a crucial meeting dedicated to the ongoing war, the outcome did not lead to any breakthrough.
Notably, this is the first meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with any global leader since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for his atrocities on children in war-torn Ukraine.
Xi’s trip — his first abroad since his re-election earlier this month — showed off Beijing’s new diplomatic swagger and gave a political lift to Putin just days after an international arrest warrant was issued for the Kremlin leader on war crimes charges related to Ukraine.
Notably, the meeting was arranged on the same day when Chinese President Xi Jinping met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow with a Ukraine peace plan.
According to the reports, the Chinese leader would visit Moscow in the last month of April or in the first week of May.
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