Where are Putin going on a first foreign trip after the attack on Ukraine?

 Russia's state TV has said President Vladimir Putin will visit two former Soviet states in Central Asia this week.

According to British news agency Reuters, this will be the first foreign visit after the Russian president's order to invade Ukraine.

Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced by Russia on February 24 this year. Russia itself faces severe sanctions from the West.

Putin has said that these (sanctions) are the reason for strengthening trade relations with other powers, China, India and Iran.

According to Powel Zerubin, a representative of state TV Russia 1, Putin will visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet Indonesian President Joko Vidodo in Moscow.

He said that in Dushanbe, Putin will meet with Tajik President Imam Ali Rehman, a close ally of Russia and the former Soviet state of the former Soviet state. In Ashgabat, he will attend the summit of the Caspian countries, including leaders of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan.

The state news agency RIA cited the Speaker of the upper house of the Russian Parliament Valentina Matveenko, saying that Russian President Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko participated in a forum on June 30 and July 1, Gordeno, on July 30 and July 1. They also intend to visit.

Vladimir Putin made his last foreign visit to China in early February this year, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a 'unlimited friendship' contract a few hours before attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games.

Russian forces, on the other hand, are fighting Monday to occupy the last major city of Leschinsk, the last major city occupied by Ukrainian troops in the eastern Lohansk province. However, Moscow -backed separatists said they were advancing on several fronts.