Secretary of its Security Council Russia This was stated today by Nikolai Patrushev, addressing his high-ranking diplomat. China Wang Yi that Beijing is Russia’s top foreign policy priority and that the two countries must remain united against the West, Russian state news agencies reported.

Nikolai Patrushev, close associate of the President Vladimir Putinalso told Wang that Moscow supports China’s position on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, according to a statement cited by RIA Novosti.

NATO: fears that China will arm Russia

“Russia is the aggressor,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a joint press conference in Brussels with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell shortly after Vladimir Putin’s speech to the Russian parliament.

Stoltenberg even expressed regret over Putin’s decision to suspend Russia’s participation in the new START treaty to control strategic nuclear arsenals and urged Moscow to reconsider it.

In addition, he said he was increasingly concerned about the possibility that China would provide military support to Russia in its attack on Ukraine.

For his part, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, assured him that China does not supply weapons to Russia and does not plan to do so.

“We must remain vigilant, but as far as I know, there is no evidence that China has done what it says it has not done,” Josep Borrell said.

^{According to Reuters, AFP, APE – MEB}