Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to make a speech setting out aims for the second year of his invasion of Ukraine, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden walked the streets of Kyiv promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes
Russia was notified before Biden's departure, officials in Washington and Moscow said, apparently to avoid the risk of an attack on Kyiv while he was there.
Putin will update Russia's political and military elite on the Ukraine conflict, the biggest confrontation with the West since the depths of the Cold War, in a speech to members of both houses of parliament on Tuesday. "China is deeply worried that the Ukraine conflict will continue to escalate or even spiral out of control," China's foreign minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday in a speech at a forum held at the foreign ministry.
Russia is trying to secure full control of two eastern provinces forming Ukraine's Donbas industrial region. It has sent thousands of conscripts into Ukraine for a winter offensive but has secured only scant gains so far in assaults in frozen trenches up and down the eastern front in recent weeks.
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