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A Russian state news agency said Vladimir Putin visited an art school and a children’s center, locations that appeared to have been chosen in response to the court’s action.
An RQ-4 Global Hawk flew a mission to the region on Friday, officials said, with one adding that it was the first such drone flight since the Tuesday incident.
The International Criminal Court issued the warrant for Vladimir Putin on Friday, alleging involvement in war crimes in the war in Ukraine.
Russian fighter pilots involved in an incident with a U.S. drone that resulted in its crash will be given state awards, the Defence Ministry announced Friday.
China has refused to condemn Moscow’s aggression and sought to project itself as neutral in the conflict even while Beijing declared last year that it had a friendship with Russia.
While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for western supporters to share fighter jets, NATO allies have expressed hesitancy.
That the two countries’ top defence and military leaders were talking so soon after the encounter over the Black Sea underscored its seriousness.
Ukrainian farmers were initially hesitant to sign on, since the co-operative model conjured memories of state-run operations under the Soviet Union.
General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the defence of Bakhmut was of “paramount strategic importance.”
Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO last year but have faced objections from Turkey, which says the two countries harbour members of what it considers terrorist groups.