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Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, spent the second day in Moscow and expressed his willingness to “deepen relations” with Russia. This is one of the headlines of day 391 of the war in Ukraine, the day Russia accused Ukraine of using “kamizake” drones to blow up an artillery convoy, injuring civilians.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has made himself available to develop a plan with the aim of “deepen relationships” and “growing cooperation” between China and Russia. Vladimir Putin declared himself “available” to create incentives for “Chinese companies” to enter the Russian market and replace the role played by Western ones in Russia.

Pomp and circumstance in the Kremlin as Putin’s talks with Xi begin. pic.twitter.com/LJDjehtvui

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NATO Secretary General Jens stoltenbergHe said he has noted that China and Russia continue to “work together” and “build a stronger alliance.” Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed that there is evidence that Russia has already ordered lethal weapons from China, but as far as he knows, Beijing has not yet supplied weapons to Moscow.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the city of vegetable spongeafter having confessed to feeling “disgusted” with the “cruelty” that he “observed”.

“The enemy is trying to break into the city center from the suburbs, but our defensive forces are destroying it 24/7.” The report is made by Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian forces on the ground, who explains how the Ukrainians continue to resist in bakhmutcity-symbol of the Ukrainian resistance in this phase of the war.

The European Union (EU) made available another tranche of 1,500 million euros of the macro-financial assistance package (MFA+) to Ukraine, approved for 2023, after a positive assessment from Brussels.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted two nuclear-capable US B-52H bombers flying over the Baltic Sea. Quoted by Al Jazeera, the ministry noted that Russia’s Western Military District’s “air defense radars” “detected two targets flying towards the border of the Russian Federation.”

Comments on the social network Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia were largely leaked.

“The iPhone is gone: either throw it away or give it to the children.” The words were spoken at a meeting in the Kremlin, quoted by the Kommersant daily, and reveal that Russia will ban Apple devices from the government.

Putin supports the entry of Chinese companies into Russia and hopes that they will take the place of Western companies that have left the country