Putin Welcomes Xi to the Kremlin in Moscow - VOA News.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed China's leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 20, 2023.
Putin told Xi that he welcomes Beijing’s peace plan to resolve Russia’s war against Ukraine and signaling to Western leaders the extent of what they call their “limitless” friendship.
Putin said he viewed the Beijing peace plan with respect. But it has little chance of enactment as proposed because it does meet key demands from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—namely, that Russia withdraw from Ukraine to honor its internationally recognized borders, including the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014 and the eastern Ukrainian regions Russian forces invaded in February of last year.
The Chinese leader’s three-day visit to Moscow gives both Xi and Putin a public show of partnership in opposing what both see as American domination of global affairs. Their growing alliance also facilitates economic deals, such as shipment of Russian oil and natural gas to China at a time when the U.S. and its Western allies have imposed widespread sanctions to curb Russia’s foreign business transactions in retaliation for its Ukraine invasion.
The Chinese leader’s trip to Moscow came just days after the International Criminal Court in The Hague charged Putin with the illegal deportation of thousands of children from Ukraine to Russia. Russia has ignored the allegations as “null and void.”
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