"On the same day, when President Xi Jinping told me and showed me, proved the positive aspects of the Chinese settlement plan in Ukraine by peaceful means, on the same day we learned about the supply of a million shells to Ukraine from Western countries, from the arsonists of this conflict," he said.
Putin added that the next day, right before the meeting with the press, it became known about Britain's plans to supply the Kiev regime with shells with depleted uranium.
"As if the Westerners did this on purpose in order to somehow disrupt our negotiations or influence them, I do not even know why, but it seems that this was done deliberately," the Russian leader said.
Earlier, Putin said that Ukrainian militants use about 5 thousand shells per day, and the United States produces 15 thousand shells only in a month.