Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the port city of Mariupol, Russian state news agencies reported Sunday. It was his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told “Fox News Sunday” that any call for a cease-fire in Ukraine coming out of the Putin-Xi meeting would be unacceptable to the U.S. because it would only “ratify Russian’s conquest to date,” and give Moscow “time to refit, retrain, re-man and try to plan for a renewed offensive.”
Following his trip to Mariupol, Putin met with Russian military leaders and troops at a command post in Rostov-on-Don, a southern Russian city some 180 kilometers farther east, and conferred with Gen. Valery Gerasimov, who is in charge of the Russian military operations in Ukraine. Peskov said. “People have started to return. When they saw that reconstruction is under way, people started actively returning,” Khusnullin told RIA.
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