Chinese Premier Xi Jinping demanded a written letter from the chastised Vladimir Putin on how he would end the war with Ukraine, it has been alleged.
The Russian despot was reportedly asked by his Chinese counterpart for the exact dates when he intends to end the bloody conflict, which threatened to cut off communications if he didn’t receive an answer.
Telegram channel General SVR, which has alleged ties to the Kremlin and Putin’s bodyguards, said Dmitry Medvedev was dispatched to Beijing “as a postman” yesterday to deliver his leader’s reply to Xi.
The unconfirmed channel is reportedly authored by an exiled Kremlin lieutenant general known by the alias Viktor Mikhailovich and has made a number of anti-Putin claims throughout the war.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, shook hands with Xi Jinping in Beijing yesterday
Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has been seldom installed by Putin in recent years and has recently been portrayed in the Kremlin as a “court clown” for his extremely anti-Western social media posts.
The allegations suggest that Putin is facing intense pressure from China to end a war that is causing severe disruption in the global economy.
Gen. SVR said Xi had “demanded from Putin a detailed plan with dates for where the Russian president should write how and when he will end the war.”
She further claimed that “only if there were such written statements, or promises if you will, would the Chinese leader be willing to agree to phone talks with Putin and discuss the possibility of visiting Russia next year.
“How persuasive the letter from Russian President Xi Jinping has become will become apparent as to whether or not the leaders of the two countries will hold phone calls in the near future.”
The Russian despot was allegedly asked by his Chinese counterpart about the exact dates when he wanted to end the bloody conflict
Ukrainian soldiers ride in a Humvee in Bakhmut in the Donetsk region yesterday
Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has rarely been used by Putin in recent years and has been portrayed as a “court clown” in the Kremlin lately (pictured in Beijing yesterday).
Official Chinese reports on the meeting stressed that Medvedev had presented Xi with a letter conveying “his kind regards and good wishes” to the Chinese leader.
Referring to Ukraine, Xi stressed that “his own position and policy has always been decided based on the merits of the matter itself,” China Daily said.
Still, there was a clear message in Beijing’s reports of the unexpected meeting between Xi and Medvedev, emphasizing the need for peace.
China “takes an objective and fair position on this issue — and has actively sought to facilitate peace talks,” according to the official newspaper.
Xi “expressed his hope that the parties concerned will show common sense and restraint, start a comprehensive dialogue, and address each other’s security concerns through political means.”
Medvedev claimed the war was due to complex factors that he did not explain.
Separately, Putin was further humiliated when his two senior security cronies – Nikolai Patrushev and Alexander Bortnikov, both 71 and longtime acolytes – dozed off during his key defense policy speech in Moscow.
Putin was further humiliated when his two senior security cronies – Nikolai Patrushev and Alexander Bortnikov, both 71 and longtime acolytes – dozed off during his key speech
Pictures and footage showed the senior apparatchiks apparently underwhelmed by the booming lecture, which promised no cap on military spending, boosted its army to 1.5 million and raised the age for forced conscription from 27 to 30 to reflect its failure in the violent to cover the conquest of Ukraine.
Patrushev is a former head of the FSB counterintelligence service who is now secretary of the Russian Security Council, a man widely regarded as the sinister architect of the war in Ukraine.
He is said to want to take over his son Dmitry Patrushev, 45, Russia’s agriculture minister, from Putin if he resigns for health reasons.
Bortnikov is currently head of the dreaded FSB.
The Telegram channel General SVR reported: “There is no point in discussing the expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which Putin is chairing ….
“FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev dozing peacefully during the leader’s speech are vivid confirmation of the pointlessness of the event.”
It wasn’t just this couple struggling to stay awake while Putin spoke.
Behind them, some of the uniformed army leaders also found it difficult to focus on the Russian dictator’s words.