MOSCOW
\nPresident Vladimir Putin has held extensive meetings with the military top brass overseeing Russia\u00b4s campaign in Ukraine, where Moscow has stepped up bombardments, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
\n\u201cOn Friday, the president spent the whole day at the army staff involved in the special military operation in Ukraine,\u201d a statement said. He held a meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and held \u201cseparate discussions with commanders\u201d from different defence branches, it said.
\n\u201cI would like to hear your proposals on our actions in the short- and medium-term,\u201d Putin was shown as saying in the meeting by Russia\u00b4s state television.
\nRussia since October has pursued an aerial onslaught against what Moscow says are military-linked facilities.
\nFrance and the European Union said the suffering inflicted on freezing civilians constitutes war crimes, with the bloc\u00b4s foreign policy chief calling the bombings \u201cbarbaric\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has held extensive meetings with the military top brass overseeing Russia\u00b4s campaign in Ukraine, where Moscow has stepped up bombardments, the Kremlin said on Saturday. \u201cOn Friday, the president spent the whole day at the army staff involved in the special military operation in Ukraine,\u201d a statement said. He held a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n