Putin's NATO movement restrained to strengthen relations with friendly countries

Russian troops are intensifying their fighting in Ukraine for full control of the eastern Luhansk region.

In addition, President Putin is strengthening diplomatic movements, such as restraining the movement of two Scandinavian countries to join NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization and strengthening relations with friendly countries.

Russian troops, which are intensifying their attacks on Ukraine over a wide area, are intensifying their fighting against the Ukrainian base Lysychans'k in eastern Luhansk Oblast, which is aiming for full control.

Local pro-Russian insurgents insisted on the 30th that they had seized control of the Lysychans'k refinery and arterial roads to Russian state media.

Meanwhile, Governor Haidai of Luhansk Oblast posted on his SNS on the 30th, saying about Lysychans'k, "Russian troops are putting in almost all the troops and trying to seize. The enemy continues to attack with all weapons, the city It's difficult to find a safe place inside, "he said, revealing that he was exposed to a violent attack.

The British Ministry of Defense pointed out in an analysis released on the 30th that the Ukrainian army "fights while delaying the fighting and withdraws in an orderly manner before being besieged", while also conducting a tactical withdrawal, the Russian army He showed the view that he was trying to exhaust.

Under these circumstances, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first foreign visit after the military invasion and continues to meet with the leaders of friendly countries.

On the 30th, in Turkmenistan, Central Asia, where we visited, we decided to formally start the procedure for joining Finland and Sweden to NATO. "If military units and infrastructure are deployed, we are like a mirror. We should clearly understand that we must respond to and pose the same threat. "

Putin will then meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who chairs the G20 = 20 major countries, in the capital Moscow.

It seems that there is a speculation to increase its presence through talks with the G20 presidency, of which China and India, which have friendly relations, are also members.