{"id":9004,"date":"2022-06-27T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:31:02","slug":"russian-president-putin-to-make-first-foreign-trips-since-launching-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/russian-president-putin-to-make-first-foreign-trips-since-launching-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian President Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader&#8217;s first known trip abroad since ordering the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s February 24 invasion has killed thousands of people, displaced millions more and led to severe financial sanctions from the West, which Putin says are a reason to build stronger trade ties with other powers such as China, India, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Zarubin, the Kremlin correspondent of the Rossiya 1 state television station, said Putin would visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo for talks in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/names-of-expats-can-be-put-on-ecl-for-offensive-seditious-social-media-posts-fia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Names of expats can be put on ECL for offensive, seditious social media posts: FIA<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Dushanbe, Putin will meet Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon, a close Russian ally and the longest-serving ruler of a former Soviet state. In Ashgabat, he will attend a summit of Caspian nations including the leaders of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan, Zarubin said.<\/p>\n<p>Putin also plans to visit the Belarus city of Grodno on June 30 and July 1 to take part in a forum with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, RIA news agency citedValentina Matviyenko, the speaker of Russia&#8217;s upper chamber of parliament, as telling Belarus television on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Putin&#8217;s last known trip outside Russia was a visit to the Beijing in early February, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a &#8220;no limits&#8221; friendship treaty hours before both attended the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>Russia says it sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 to degrade its neighbour&#8217;s military capabilities, keep it from being used by the West to threaten Russia, root out nationalists and defend Russian-speakers in eastern regions.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine calls the invasion an imperial-style land grab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader&#8217;s first known trip abroad since ordering the invasion of Ukraine. Russia&#8217;s February 24 invasion has killed thousands of people, displaced millions more and led to severe financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6086,2106,2380,2988,2547],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-belarus","tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","tag-i-find-myself-stronger","tag-kazakhstan","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}