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Some African leaders have arrived in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin seeks more allies amid the fighting in Ukraine ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Some African leaders arrived in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin as he seeks allies amid the fighting in Ukraine, while the Kremlin accused Western powers of “outrageous” efforts to pressure other African heads of state not to attend. Putin has billed the two-day summit that opens Thursday in St. Pet ersburg as a major event that would help bolster ties with a continent of 1.3 billion people that is increasingly assertive on the global stage. “Today, Africa is asserting itself more and more confidently as one of the poles of the emerging multipolar world,” Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin. “The forum will provide a further boost to our political and humanitarian partnership for many years to come.” On Wednesday, Putin held one-on-one talks with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy ...

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited command posts of the Kremlin’s forces fighting in Ukraine in an apparent effort to rally his troops as the war approaches its 14th month and Kyiv readies a possible counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons. A video released by the Kremlin and broadcast by Russian state television showed Putin arriving by helicopter at the command post for Russian forces in the southern Kherson region and afterward flying to the headquarters of the Russian National Guard of the eastern Luhansk region Dressed in a dark suit, and in an apparent demonstration of authority, Putin appeared to chair the meetings with his military top brass. It was his second trip in two months to the Russian-occupied territories in the neighboring country. The locations of the Military headquarters in the Kherson and Luhansk regions w...