The approach announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin this Tuesday, after completing his summit with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, and addressing Beijing’s 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, is clearly not considering withdrawing troops. enmities. If that were the case, he would have announced that he was taking advantage of the presence of his Chinese guest, who had repeatedly expressed his support for ending the conflict.
Waiting for a possible remote contact between Xi and his Ukrainian counterpart, Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky, Speaking of the unlikely implementation of Beijing’s peace plan, the only thing that was agreed upon in Moscow at the summit is that the Chinese diplomatic initiative serves as a “base” while waiting for better times. “Many points of the Chinese peace plan can serve as a basis for reaching an agreement with Ukraine when Kiev and its allies are ready to do so,” Putin said in his appearance to the press after the talks between the Russian and Chinese delegations. .
At the same time, noting that the time was not right to talk about peace, referring to the UK’s supply of weapons to Ukraine, the Russian president said that “the plans for the supply of uranium-containing shells that impoverished Kiev indicate that the West decided to fight the Russian Federation until The last of the Ukrainians, not in words, but in deeds ».
According to his speech, “the Russian Federation will be forced to respond to the supply of depleted uranium to Kiev, because this means that the West has begun to use weapons with a nuclear component.” Despite the proven contradiction, Putin emphasized that “Russia and China are firmly opposed to any country or bloc that harms the interests of other countries.” “In most international affairs, the positions of Moscow and Beijing are close or identical,” he added.
For his part, the Chinese president, in his speech as the culmination of the summit, said that his country “is guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Regarding the crisis in Ukraine, China maintains a neutral position (…) advocating peace and dialogue for the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. The truth is That unless he talks to Zelensky and makes a move, since Russia’s position has not changed, Xi’s mediation to end the war seems to have achieved nothing.
On the contrary, regardless of Putin’s condemnation of the presence of depleted uranium in British missiles and his threats of nuclear escalation, the Russian Defense Minister said: Sergey ShoiguHe also added fuel to the fire by pointing out that “after the UK’s statements regarding the shipment of depleted uranium-enriched projectiles to Ukraine, there are fewer and fewer steps left to reach a nuclear collision.” Shoigu warned that Russia “will have to seriously think about how to respond” to London.
Zelensky announced that he had invited China to discuss his plan to stop the conflict. “We proposed to China to join the search for a formula for peace and dialogue, and we are waiting for a response,” he said in a press conference. “But we only received signals, nothing concrete,” added the Ukrainian president. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Irina Vereshuk, told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper that Kiev is “awaiting confirmation of a telephone conversation between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky” on the “reintegration” of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. The first outlet to ensure that such a conversation took place, once Xi spoke with Putin, was the American Wall Street Journal.
On Monday, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, He warned that “the world must not be deceived by any tactical move by Russia, with the support of China or any other country, to freeze the war” according to its own interests. Yesterday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg came to say the same thing, and for whom “it is up to Ukraine to decide what terms are acceptable for any peaceful solution.”
“Therefore, China needs to start understanding Ukraine’s perspective and engage directly with President Zelensky, if it wants to get serious about peace,” Stoltenberg stressed. According to his vision, the Chinese plan includes positive aspects, namely the need to ensure nuclear safety, civilian protection and territorial integrity.
respect for sovereignty
Although, at the same time, the Secretary General of the Alliance warned that any proposal for a ceasefire that does not respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, that is, does not consider the withdrawal of Russian forces from the occupied regions, “will only be a way to freeze the war and ensure that Russia can reconfigure Line it up, put it together and hit it again.”
Regarding rumors about alleged arms shipments to Russia by China, Stoltenberg maintains that there is no evidence for this. The Supreme Leader stressed, “But we have seen some indications that there is a request from Russia and that this is an issue being discussed in Beijing (…) Our message is that China should not provide lethal aid to Russia.” NATO.
The heads of state of Russia and China once again showed harmony and willingness to cooperate. They listed the abundant areas in which trade relations and all kinds of relations are developed: energy, agriculture, transport, space, medicine, sports, and so on. They showed astronomical numbers for the increase in their exchanges. They signed two declarations, one on “deepening comprehensive partnership relations and strategic cooperation in the coming new era,” and the other on a plan to develop “the main areas of economic cooperation between the two countries until 2030.”
Xi also met with the Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin who invited them to visit China. The same invitation was extended to Putin. In short, the two presidents said the talks, which began on Monday and ended yesterday, “were successful.” The Chinese president believes that relations with Moscow are “of vital importance to the current world order.” As mentioned, “Trade turnover between Russia and China in 10 years has increased by 116%.” The meeting ended yesterday with a gala dinner at the Palace of Faces in the Kremlin, and today Xi will end his visit to Moscow.
