Charles Maynes

China's president Xi Jinping and Russia's president Vladimir Putin begin their second day of a state visit in Moscow. Center stage is what this may — or may not mean — for the war in Ukraine.

China's president Xi Jinping and Russia's president Vladimir Putin begin their second day of a state visit in Moscow. Center stage is what this may — or may not mean — for the war in Ukraine.

The meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin is expected to focus heavily on the war in Ukraine, and comes after a surprise weekend trip by Putin into Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia.

The ICC has issued warrants for the Russian president and his children's rights commissioner for alleged war crimes involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian children.

The United States accused Russia of an "unsafe" and "unprofessional" intercept of its MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that forced it to be brought down over the Black Sea this week

Moscow said the long-anticipated visit is coming at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin. The talks are expected to focus on the war in Ukraine, though it wasn't mentioned explicitly.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. will continue flying 'wherever international law allows.' This comes a day after Russia downed a U.S. drone in the Black Sea.

An adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the reports are based on "anonymous conjecture but not real facts." The attacks, he said, are "devoid of tactical sense."

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's Chef" because of his company's origins in the catering business, now fields a mercenary army of 50,000. Its role in Ukraine is central to Russia's war effort.

Animal rights activist Alicia Day says she routinely walks her farm animals in public to encourage people to think twice about eating meat. Why she chose to do so in the center of Moscow isn't clear.