Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in Central Asia this week.
The news of the Kremlin leader's first foreign visit since the start of the war in Ukraine was announced by Russian state television on Sunday.
Pavel Zarubin, the Kremlin's state television correspondent Rossiya 1, said Putin would visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo for talks in Moscow.
"In Dushanbe, Putin will meet with the President of Tajikistan, Imomali Rakhmon, a close Russian ally and the longest-serving ruler of a former Soviet state. "In Ashgabat, he will attend a summit of Caspian countries, including the leaders of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan."
Putin also plans to visit the Belarusian city of Grodno on June 30 and July 1 to attend a forum with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Putin's last known trip outside Russia was a visit to Beijing in early February, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a "borderless" friendship treaty just hours before the two attended the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Winter.