Putin Is Meeting a Lot of World Leaders for a Global ‘Outcast’
The Russian president is on a whirl of diplomatic engagement, confounding Western efforts to present him as isolated over the war in Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin is on a diplomatic roll at home and abroad, defying efforts by the US and its allies to cast him as an international pariah over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In just two months since he began his fifth presidential term in May, Putin has held more than 20 meetings with leaders from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.