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‘Genuine desire’: Putin backs China peace plan to end Ukraine war

China's President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have toasted their 'no limits' partnership as a counter to the United States [File: Greg Baker and Gavrill Grigorov/various sources/AFP]

President Vladimir Putin has signalled approval of China’s plan as a “genuine desire” to end the war in Ukraine as he travels to Beijing to shore up support from his vital international partner.

In an interview with China’s Xinhua state news agency published on Wednesday ahead of a two-day visit to the country to meet President Xi Jinping, Putin praised Beijing’s approach, saying that it truly understood the conflict’s “root causes” and its “global geopolitical meaning”.

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