“Right now there are changes – the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years – and we are the ones driving these changes together,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he leaves after their dinner at The Palace of the Facets in the Kremlin.Air raid sirens blared across the capital Kyiv and northern towns, and the military said it had shot down 16 of 21 Iranian-made Shahed suicide drones.
“This must not become ‘just another day’ in Ukraine or anywhere else in the world. The world needs greater unity and determination to defeat Russian terror faster and protect lives,” Zelensky tweeted. “What China has done boils down to one word, that is, to promote peace talks,” Wang said at a daily briefing.
China would “continue to play a constructive role in promoting a political settlement of the Ukrainian issue,” he said, an apparent reference to a 12-point peace proposal put forward by Beijing that calls for a ceasefire and negotiations. The US and others have continued to express concerns that China may provide military equipment to supplement its purchases of Russian energy resources and provision of computer chips to keep the Russian economy afloat.on Tuesday said Russia had purchased more than $US12 million in drones and drone parts from China in the year since the invasion began, citing official Russian customs data provided from a source it did not identify.
Wang said nothing about the arrest warrant issued for Putin by the International Criminal Court on charges of alleged involvement in abductions of thousands of children from Ukraine.
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