Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia to make further bid to carve out ‘buffer zone’ in coming weeks, warns US defence secretary
by Yohannes Lowe (now) and Lili Bayer (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6MXZT)
Lloyd Austin, speaking at the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, praises troops' courage in hard and dangerous fight'
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, held a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Kazakhstan's capital Astana, the Russian state news Tass agency reported on Monday.
It said the ministers were meeting to discuss the implementation of Russian-Chinese agreements reached during Vladimir Putin's state visit to China last week, and events in Iran, whose president and foreign minister were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
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