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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that at the moment he has no plans to capture the city of Kharkiv, but that Russian forces were establishing a buffer zone in the area because of attacks from Kharkiv on the Russian region of Belgorod. He made his comments in response to a question from Russian state media reporters at the end of his visit to China in the city of Harbin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the heavily attacked Kharkiv region on Thursday and said the situation had stabilized. The area has come under heavy Russian attack recently. Putin said the buffer z…

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