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In a rare acknowledgment during a meeting Thursday with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, Putin said that missiles fired by Russian air defenses after Ukrainian drones entered Russian airspace had detonated near an Azerbaijan Airlines plane.

Suppliers for the U.S. military are dependent on Chinese materials used to make items such as drones and missile-targeting systems.

Last winter, energy workers largely maintained the power supply even as missiles and drones rained down on them.

Those wargames have included shooting down air attacks on the Northern Fleet, Russia’s premier NATO-facing fleet, as well as carrying out drills with electronic warfare equipment that Moscow uses to disable Ukrainian drones.

The talks sputtered out after Russia intensified drone and missile strikes in Ukraine while handing Ukrainian officials a set of demands that would seize control of much of the country.