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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer, and Helen Davidson in Taipei

Putin welcomes China’s controversial proposals for peace in Ukraine

Chinese president Xi Jinping shakes hands with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Palace following second day of talks.
Chinese president Xi Jinping shakes hands with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Palace following their second day of talks. Photograph: Mikhail Tereshchenko/AP

Vladimir Putin has welcomed China’s proposals for peace in Ukraine at a joint press conference with Xi Jinping in Moscow – a plan the west has warned would allow the Kremlin to “freeze” its territorial gains in the country.

Speaking at the Kremlin during a joint news conference after the second day of talks with China’s president, Xi Jinping, Putin said Beijing’s peace plan “correlates to the point of view of the Russian Federation” and said that Ukraine’s western allies so far have shown no interest in it.

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