Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, hoping for support against Western pressure over his war in Ukraine.
China's proposal contains only general statements and no concrete proposal on how to end the year-long war, which has killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed cities and forced millions to flee.
Alongside growing oil and coal deliveries to China, Putin said Russia was helping to build nuclear power reactors there and the two countries were deepening co-operation in space exploration and new technologies. Giving its regular morning roundup from the front, Ukraine's military said defenders in Bakhmut, Lyman, Ivanivske, Bohdanivka and Hryhorivka — all towns in the Donetsk region — had repelled 69 Russian attacks in the past day.
In January, the United States assessed that Wagner had about 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, including 40,000 convicts Prigozhin had recruited from Russian prisons with a promise of a pardon if they survived six months.
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