1 of 2 Xi Jinping waves as he lands at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on March 20, 2023 — Photo: Anatoliy Zhdanov/Kommersant Photo/AFP
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Russia on Monday (20th). exacerbates tensions with the West, which accuses Beijing of supplying arms to the Russian army.
this is that The Chinese President’s first visit to Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of this year, however, Putin has often spoken of a “strategic” partnership with Beijing. Intelligence agencies in Britain and the United States indicate that Russia has started buying arms from China in an attempt to counter Western support for Ukraine.
Xi is due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin later Monday, with whom he will hold a press conference. On Tuesday (21st) will discuss a “strategic partnership” between the two countries, according to the Russian government. The next day he returns to Beijing.
But Beijing says the trip is the first step in China’s attempt to launch a new round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
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In an article published in Monday’s edition of a Russian state newspaper, Xi Jinping said his peace proposal would serve to “neutralize the consequences of the conflict and promote a political solution.” But he said he knew it wasn’t an easy task.
“Complex problems have no simple solutions,” he said.
Putin who called Xi Jinping an “old friend”said the Chinese leader’s visit confirms the “special” partnership between Russia and China.
British intelligence says China must supply military equipment to Russia all year round. Beijing denies.
Xi and Putin had previously met in Uzbekistan during a regional leaders’ meeting in September last year.
Arrest warrant against Putin
Moscow had already been blamed by nongovernmental organizations, by Kiev and even by a United Nations (UN) investigation Kidnapping of children in Ukrainian regions who are abducted by the country’s army and taken to “reeducation” centers on Russian territory. Oneself The Kremlin has already admitted sending the young Ukrainians to Russia, but claims they are orphans.
The Kremlin called the decision “nonsensical”. Russia does not recognize the International Court of Justice of The Hague, created in 1998, which reports only to those countries that have ratified it (i.e. adopted it as law internally), which is not the case with the Russian government.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pays a surprise visit to Mariupol in southern Ukraine
On Saturday (18th), Putin defied this arrest warrant and paid a surprise visit to Mariupol, the southern Ukraine city heavily bombed by Russian troops and currently controlled by Moscow.
The city was destroyed by Russian attacks early in the war. Mariupol was considered strategic for Putin as it has an exit to the Black Sea and is close to Crimea.the Ukrainian peninsula occupied and occupied by Russia in 2014.
2 of 2 A pregnant woman is carried away on a stretcher after the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol on March 9, 2022. She and the baby later died. — Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP A pregnant woman is carried away on a stretcher in Mariupol on March 9, 2022 after the bombing of a maternity hospital. She and the baby later died. — Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
On March 9, 2022, just 15 days after the start of the war, a maternity hospital in the city was hit by Russian bombing, according to city officials. The Russian Defense Ministry has denied the airstrike order, accusing Ukraine of faking the bombing.
But pictures documented the destruction and pregnant women who had to leave the site in a hurry, in labor and being carried on a stretcher.
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Kyiv, on the other hand, relied on it Supply of arms and military equipment by Western countrieswith the German Leopard 2 tanks to drive out the Russian troops who currently control about 20% of Ukrainian territoryin the east of the country.