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Vladimir Putin to meet Xi Jinping as Ukraine looms large - BBC News Vladimir Putin to meet Xi Jinping as Ukraine looms large - BBC News
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Putin arrived in Beijing just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday announced that he would cancel all trips abroad as his troops defend Russia’s advances in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region.
Russia and China have "similar or coinciding positions on key issues on the international agenda", Putin said in an interview with Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Zelensky had earlier planned to visit Spain and Portugal at the end of the week.
Both countries advocate "the primacy of international law, equal, indivisible, comprehensive and sustainable security" at global and regional levels, he said. Meanwhile US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise trip to Ukraine earlier this week where he sought to reassure Ukrainians.
"We also reject Western attempts to impose an order based on lies and hypocrisy, on some mythical rules of no one knows whose making," he added. Washington has the power to seize Russian assets in the US and will use them to help rebuild Ukraine, said Blinken.
The lengthy written interview was published on Wednesday - a day before the Russian leader was due to arrive in Beijing.
In it, Putin had described Moscow-Beijing relations as an "unprecedented level of strategic partnership".
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