According to the results of the negotiations with the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping in Moscow, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, was unable to secure a closer bilateral partnership with China, which he could have hoped for. This is the conclusion reached by the analysts of the Institute for the Study of War, which is discussed in published ISW reports.
Key findings
- Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be putting forward conditions for using the UN Security Council (UNSC) as a weapon and method of Russian power projection ahead of Russia joining the rotating presidency of the UNSC in April.
- Data from the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin continued to suggest that Putin has failed to secure the open-ended bilateral partnership with China that he may have hoped for.
- Putin misrepresented the West's provision of depleted uranium munitions (not suitable for use in nuclear or radiological weapons) to Ukraine as a major escalation to enhance information operations aimed at deterring Western security assistance to Ukraine and put the negotiating burden on the West.
- Wagner's group may lose most of its prisoners in the coming weeks as the prisoners' six-month military contracts expire.
- The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) and the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya) initiated a criminal case against the deputy head of the Central District of the Rosgvardiya, Major General Vadym Dragomiretskyi.
- The U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. Department of Defense) has announced that it has authorized presidential staff reductions to provide approximately $350 million in aid to Ukraine.
- Russian troops continued limited offensive actions on the Kupyansk-Svatov-Kreminna line.
- Russian troops did not make any confirmed successes in Bakhmut and its surroundings and continued offensive operations on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.
- The Kremlin continues crypto-mobilization campaigns to recruit men across Russia for contract service to avoid announcing a second wave of mobilization.
- The Russian occupation authorities continue to facilitate the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
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