Russian President Putin To Make His First Foreign Trip Since Ordering The Invasion Of Ukraine

Vladimir Putin exits the Russian presidential plane © AFP / Andreas Solaro  

Reuters: Russia's Putin to make first foreign trip since launching Ukraine war  

LONDON (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, 

Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since ordering the invasion of Ukraine. 

Russia's Feb. 24 invasion has killed thousands of people, displaced millions more and led to severe financial sanctions from the West, which Putin says are a reason to build stronger trade ties with other powers such as China, India and Iran. 

Pavel Zarubin, the Kremlin correspondent of the Rossiya 1 state television station, said Putin would visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo for talks in Moscow.  

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Update #1: Putin to make first foreign trip since February -- RT  

Update #2: Vladimir Putin to make first foreign trip since Ukraine invasion -- Al Jazeera  

WNU Editor: Russian President Putin will also be meeting the leader of Indonesia in the coming days .... Indonesia president to visit Ukraine, Russia on peace-building mission (Reuters).