Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with leadership of military-industrial complex enterprises in Tula, Russia December 23, 2022. A latest poll showed on Friday that 74.3 percent of Russians approved of Vladimir Putin’s work as the Russian president. Sputnik/Russian Presidential Press Office/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Tula Region Governor Alexei Dyumin (L) and Shcheglovsky Val Director General Alexei Visloguzov (R), visits the Shcheglovsky Val machine building plant, a subsidiary of KBP Instrument Design Bureau, in Tula, Russia December 23, 2022. The survey conducted by the government-owned research center VTSIOM found that 78.1 percent of the respondents trusted Putin. Sputnik/Russian Presidential Press Office/Kremlin via REUTERS

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference after a meeting of the State Council on youth policy in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo