Putin attends joint army drills with China, other nations

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday attended sweeping war games in his country's far east involving troops from China and other nations, in a show of military muscle amid the tensions with the West over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

The weeklong exercise that began last Thursday is intended to showcase growing defense ties between Russia and China, and also demonstrate that Moscow has enough troops and equipment for the massive drills, even while its forces are fighting in Ukraine.