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Russia says it will never again depend on the West after the United States and its allies imposed crippling sanctions on it to punish Putin for ordering what he called a 'special military operation' in Ukraine.

Even if the war is ending, the repruccusions that Kremlin will face, along with the world, is far from over.

The two leaders were due to head to the Vostochny Cosmodrome to mark Russia's annual Cosmonautics Day, commemorating the first manned space flight made in 1961 by the Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Russian attempt to sabotage Ukrainian power grid thwarted Russian hackers attempted to launch a destructive cyberattack on Ukraine's electricity grid last week, Ukrainian officials and cybersecurity researchers said on Tuesday.