Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the plenary session of the Valdai club, said he did not warn about the upcoming invasion of the Chinese of China Xi Jinping, whom he met in early February, three weeks before the start of the war.
According to Putin, there was no need to pre -notify Xi Jinping, because he is a “self -sufficient world -class leader.”
The People’s Republic of China and its leadership, according to Putin, “” advocate pragmatic, balanced decisions of the crisis in Ukraine peacefully. And we respect this position, “he concluded.