Tuesday, March 21, 2023 03:25
Photo: Xi Jinping won’t give Putin the support Russia needs for war against Ukraine (Getty Images)
During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 20, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a more restrained view of bilateral relations than the Kremlin dictator had hoped for.
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According to experts,
- Putin will intensify his efforts to mobilize the rest of the world against the West, although it is unlikely that he will achieve results.
- The Russian news space continues to react with anger and alarm over the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Putin and the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.
- Andriy Yusov, spokesman for the IOM’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, said the frequency of Russia’s large-scale missile attacks has decreased.
- UN to discuss Israeli airstrikes in Syria Russia has asked the Security Council, possibly in retaliation for Israel approving export licenses for counter-drone systems to Ukraine.
- Russian sources said Ukrainian and Russian forces were carrying out offensive operations northeast of Kubyansk.
- Russian troops continued their offensive near Svadovo and Kremenaya.
- Russian troops continue to attack in Pakmut area.
- Russian troops continued ground attacks on the Avdiivka-Donetsk front.
- Russian sources say Russian troops are setting up defensive fortifications and thwarting Ukrainian intelligence operations in the Zaporizhia region.
- Russian sources have accused unknown persons of detonating the bomb that exploded near a gas pipeline in Simferopol, occupied Crimea.
- Putin acknowledged Russia’s difficulties in obtaining components for high-tech industrial production.
- On March 17, Ukrainian partisans removed Serhiy Moskalenko, the head of the Russian-appointed Kherson Region pre-trial detention center, with an improvised explosive device.