Putin calls Xi Jinping and assures him that he is willing to "negotiate" with Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin

and

have spoken this Friday by phone.

It has been the official Chinese agency Xinhua that has published a statement revealing the conversation between the president of China and Russia just when the Moscow troops entered Kiev.

"Putin presented the historical latitude and longitude of the Ukraine issue and the situation and position of Russia's special military operations in the eastern part of Ukraine. He said that the United States and NATO have long ignored Russia's reasonable security concerns. , repeatedly failing to fulfill its commitments, and continued to advance the military deployment to the east, challenging Russia's strategic outcome.

," the Xinhua statement read.

Xi, according to the statement, would have asked his Russian colleague to

.

"China is willing to work with all parties in the international community to promote a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, and firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law. said the Chinese president.

"We must abandon the Cold War mentality, attach importance to and respect the legitimate security concerns of all countries, and form a balanced, effective and sustainable European security mechanism through negotiations," Xi continued, keeping in his conversation with Putin the "basic position on respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries".

A statement from Putin's greatest ally that clashes with the war he has started in Ukraine.

The last time the two leaders spoke was face to face on February 4, when Putin visited Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

Xi then supported him in demanding that NATO stop its expansion in Eastern Europe.

In exchange, the Russian seconded the Chinese position of

the island with an autonomous and democratic government that China considers a breakaway province.

After their meeting in the Chinese capital, the two leaders signed a lengthy communiqué that pointed to a

Bloomberg recounted that Xi had asked Putin not to provoke any military conflict in Ukraine during the Beijing Olympics.

From Moscow they denied it.

But the truth is that not even 24 hours have passed since the end of the Games when Putin announced that he recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.

As many foreign countries and markets begin to blockade Moscow economically in response to its attack on Ukraine,

without criticizing or openly supporting the war launched by Putin.

However, Beijing has begun to position itself as a lifeline for Russia's economy in the face of sanctions.

On Thursday night, Chinese customs announced the lifting of restrictions on Russian grain imports, confirming a deal to import wheat that Xi and Putin struck during their meeting on the eve of the Winter Olympics.

Beijing had restricted imports due to phytosanitary concerns (measures to control plant diseases, especially in agricultural crops).

According to the federal Agro-export center of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, agricultural exports to China fell by 13% in 2021 from the previous year.

But now, China, removing the previous barriers due to the cases of contamination by the wheat smut fungus, will allow imports of the cereal on a large scale.

Coincidence or not, the announcement of the agreement was published by the General Administration of Customs of China just after the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, spoke by phone with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.

Wang, according to Beijing in a statement, said that China "has always respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries", but that he understands "Russia's reasonable concerns on security issues".

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