Relations with China are of "unprecedented" quality. Vladimir Putin said this when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on the opening day of the Winter Olympics. "As far as our bilateral relations are concerned, they have progressed in a spirit of friendship, of strategic partnership. They have acquired a truly unprecedented character," said the Russian president, as reported by Russian TV.
On Monday, a meeting between the Russian leader and French president Emmanuel Macron is scheduled in Moscow, which anticipates a confrontation between the Elysee number one and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The objective of the French president is to trigger a de-escalation in the Ukrainian crisis , this also after a series of telephone contacts, which have intensified in recent days with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts as well as with the President of the United States Joe Biden.
(Unioneonline / vl)
