Vladimir Putin said Russia's 'special military operation in Ukraine' has shown the importance of drones. He made the comments during a speech at an end-of-year meeting of Russia's top defence chiefs in Moscow. Latest:
Updates from Dominic Waghorn in Ukraine and Diana Magnay in Moscow. Live reporting by Olive Enokido-LinehamAs Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares for his trip to the US, a more recent trip by the Ukrainian president appears to have presented fresh issues for his Russian counterpart.And a visit widely perceived as courageous has seemingly prompted comparisons that unfavourable for Vladimir Putin.
"Other milbloggers speculated that the Kremlin made a secretive political decision for a Russian ceasefire, allowing Zelensky to walk around Bakhmut. Another milblogger reiterated that Putin had not visited the occupied territories and stated that Russian forces would not be able to effectively conduct a precision strike in time against Zelensky.
"The visit will have taken quite a while to arrange. The Leader of the House Nancy Pelosi invited Zelenskyy to address the joint house and of course they're debating a very large long-term support package to Ukraine of up to $45 billion." A senior US official said that Mr Zelenskyy would meet Mr Biden, the US president's national security team and congressional leaders today.Now to the US where Washington is preparing for a visit by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Ukrainian president will hold a meeting with US President Joe Biden at 2.30pm ET - so around 7.30pm UK time. The ministry added that 1,688 drones had been destroyed alongside 5,979 armoured combat vehicles and 412 multiple launch rocket systems. This"special military operation", as Putin still insisted on calling it, has shown that the Russian armed forces just aren't quite the high-tech, ultra-modern army he'd made them out to be.
Moscow will give its armed forces"everything it asks for" and Russia does not have any restrictions on financing its armyThe president acknowledged, not for the first time, that the call-up of 300,000 reservists that he ordered in September had not gone smoothly. Speaking to Vladimir Putin and Russia's top military leaders at an end-of-year conference, Sergei Shoigu said the country's military must be expanded from its current 1m personnel to 1.5 million.The defence minister also proposed raising the age range for mandatory Russian military service to cover Russian citizens aged 21-30.
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