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XI is the most powerful of more than two dozen foreign leaders who visit Moscow this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a celebration of a huge meaning for Putin.
At the national level, he offers him a chance to rally the Russians in memory of a historical feat which is at the heart of the country's national identity. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people during the Second World War, including several million in Ukraine, which was also devastated.
On the world scene, Putin aims to get started alongside Xi as a defender of the international order and to demonstrate that years of Western sanctions have failed to isolate Russia.
Putin last week announced a three-day unilateral ceasefire in war with UkraineFrom Thursday. Ukraine has not undertaken to worry about it, Call him a cunning of Putin To create printing, he wants to end war. Instead, he declared his desire to join a ceasefire that lasts at least 30 days.
The two countries are under the opposite of the American president Donald Trump to conclude a peace agreement, and Washington threatened several times to move away from talks unless there is clear progress.
Ukraine targeted Moscow with drones for three days earlier this week, but the sky above the capital was calm on Thursday. With so many foreign leaders present, any attack during the May 9 events could embarrass Putin and would probably draw a difficult response from Moscow.
A Ukrainian military spokesperson told Reuters that Russian troops had continued to carry out assaults in several areas on the Eastern Front, despite the ceasefire. The Air Force said that Russian planes had launched guided bombs three times in the Sumy region in northern Ukraine.
But the Air Force also said that there had not been Russian missiles or drones in Ukrainian airspace since the start of the ceasefire sponsored by the Kremlin.
Chinese troops will participate in the military parade on Friday in the Red Square, the centerpiece of commemorations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine urged countries on Tuesday not to send their soldiers to participate, saying that this would go against the declared neutrality of certain countries during the war.
XI called on talks to end the conflict in Ukraine and accused the United States of winning with weapons supplies in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has in the past trying to try to persuade Putin to stop war.
XI, whose country is locked in a Tatruff was with the United States, should sign many agreements to deepen Strategic partnership “without limits” That Russia and China signed in 2022, less than three weeks before Putin sent her army to Ukraine.
China is the largest trading partner in Russia and launched an economic rescue buoy in Moscow that helped it sail in Western sanctions. China buys more Russian oil and gas than any other country.
