MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published early on May 15, said he backed China's plan for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, saying Beijing had a full understanding of what lay behind the crisis.
China's plan and further "principles" made public by Xi Jinping in April took account of factors behind the conflict, Vladimir Putin said.MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published early on May 15, said he backed China's plan for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, saying Beijing had a full understanding of what lay behind the crisis.
"We are positive in our assessment of China's approach to solving the Ukrainian crisis," Putin said, according to a Russian-language transcript on the Kremlin website. "In Beijing, they truly understand its root causes and its global geopolitical meaning." It received a lukewarm reception at the time in both Russia and Ukraine, while the US said China was presenting itself as a peacemaker but reflecting Russia's "false narrative" and failing to condemn its invasion.
Russia views the conflict as a struggle pitting it against the "collective West" which took no account of Moscow's security concerns by promoting the eastward expansion of Nato and military activity close to its borders.
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