China’s leader to visit Moscow next week after U.S.-Russia clash over Ukraine

By Eduardo Baptista and Mike Collett-White BEIJING/NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next week, officials from both countries said on Friday, weighing into the Ukraine conflict just as relations between Moscow and Washington hit a new low. Xi’s visit to Moscow is a diplomatic coup for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has been placed under unprecedented international sanctions since he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Beijing and Moscow struck a “no limits” partnership shortly before the invasion and U….

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