By AFP 17 December 2022 | 8:49 am President Vladimir Putin has held extensive meetings with the military top brass overseeing Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, where Moscow has stepped up bombardments, the Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the joint staff of troops involved in Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in an undisclosed place in Russia on December 17, 2022. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov / Sputnik / AFP) President Vladimir Putin has held extensive meetings with the military top brass overseeing Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, where Moscow has stepped up bombardments, the Kremlin said Saturday. “On Friday, the president spent the whole day at the army staff involved in the special military operation in Ukraine,” a statement said. He held a meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and held “separate discussions with commanders” from different defence branches, it said. “I would like to hear your proposals on our actions in the short- and medium-term,” Putin was shown as saying in the meeting by Russia’s state television. Russia launched a barrage of missiles on Friday on multiple cities in Ukraine, plunging them into darkness, cutting water and heat and forcing people to endure sub-zero temperatures. After a series of embarrassing battlefield defeats, Russia since October has pursued an aerial onslaught against what Moscow says are military-linked facilities. France and the European Union said the suffering inflicted on freezing civilians constitutes war crimes, with the bloc’s foreign policy chief calling the bombings “barbaric”. Latest 19 mins ago The Katsina Emirate Council has released the programme for the installation and turbanning of the new Sardauna of Katsina, Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar. A member of the council told PRNigeria that Abubakar, the current Director of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), will be turbaned on 31st December at the Emir’s Palace. The title of Sardauna means… 1 hour ago President Vladimir Putin has held extensive meetings with the military top brass overseeing Russia’s campaign in Ukraine, where Moscow has stepped up bombardments, the Kremlin said 1 hour ago Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Plateau, says he will unite the people and tackle poverty if elected the state governor. 1 hour ago The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday received another batch of 266 stranded Nigerians from neighbouring Niger Republic. 1 hour ago Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor of Delta State, has detailed how his administration would restore Warri’s former splendour if elected governor in 2023. The famed city will undergo extensive and planned urban renewal, according to Omo-Agege, the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, who stated that the improvement of…
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