Russian President Vladimir Putin attended large-scale military exercises on Tuesday involving China and several other nations, this comes as Moscow seeks to strengthen its diplomatic ties in Asia amid the ongoing western sanctions.

Putin seeks closer ties with Asia as tensions with West intensifies

For the next 7 days, Russia will undertake massive military drills along with troops of at least 12 countries including China and India. The drills mark increasingly close defense ties between Moscow and Beijing. The week-long exercises which began today set to end on the 7th of September and it comes amid simmering tensions with the West over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia holds major military exercises, over 50,000 troops, 140 aircraft and 60 warships take part

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