Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin, signing documents on “strategic cooperation”. Prime Minister of Japan Kishida arrived in Ukraine to talk with Volodymyr Zelenskyi. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has warned China not to supply lethal weapons to Russia, as the Russians threaten Britain with consequences if it supplies missiles to Ukraine

Synthesis of the last 24 hours

• Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met for the second round of talks in the Kremlin. The two signed a series of “strategic cooperation” documents after what Putin described as “successful and constructive” talks, confirming that relations between China and Russia are at the “highest point” in their history.

• Xi also said that China takes an “impartial stance” on the conflict in Ukraine and supports peace and dialogue, Russian state media reported. Xi said the talks with his Russian counterpart were “open and friendly”. Speaking at a joint press conference, Putin noted that Beijing’s proposal to end the conflict in Ukraine could become the basis for a peaceful settlement – when the West is ready for it.

• Xi invited Putin to visit China this year as a show of support after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president. Putin may visit China this year, Kremlin foreign policy advisor Yuriy Ushakov believes.

• Putin condemned Britain for its intention to send ammunition to Ukraine. If Great Britain supplies ammunition to Ukraine, Russia will be forced to react, the Russian leader warned at a press conference with President Xi.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said he offered China to join the peace formula to end Russia’s war in his country. Speaking at a joint press conference in Kyiv with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Zelenskyi said that Ukraine is still waiting for a response from Beijing. He also said he would join the upcoming G7 summit in Japan via video link.

• The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that an explosion in the Crimean city of Jankoy destroyed Russian cruise missiles intended for use by Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet.

• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned China against supplying Russia with lethal weapons. “We have not seen any evidence that China is supplying Russia with lethal weapons, but we have seen some indications that there has been a request from Russia and that it is being considered in Beijing,” Stoltenberg said.

The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 392, LIVETEXT:

06:36 Air defense forces shot down all enemy drones detected in the airspace around Kyiv last night, the Ukrainian authorities reported with reference to Ukrinform. “The enemy does not stop attacking Kyiv. That night, the terrorist country attacked in the direction of the capital. All the targets detected in the airspace around Kyiv were destroyed by our forces,” said Serhii Popko, head of the KMVA.

He added that according to the latest data there were no casualties

06:10 Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the president’s chairman, asked journalists, including foreign ones, not to call the forced deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia “evacuation”. “A request to everyone, especially foreign journalists: do not consider their forced removal from Ukraine an evacuation,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter.

01:30Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his message on Tuesday evening: “The migration of the most reasonable rats of the terrorist state has already begun in Crimea”

In his speech on Tuesday evening, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi talked about the visit of the Prime Minister of Japan to Kyiv and emphasized that it is all the more significant because it took place on the day when Ukraine celebrates the year of the first victory over the Russian occupation forces. and Japan, which chairs the G7, wants to help and mobilize the world to protect the existing “international order”.

Britain after Putin’s reaction: Uranium projectiles have nothing to do with nuclear weapons

01:18Drone flights remain in international airspace, but following a collision between a Russian jet and an MQ-9 Reaper drone last Tuesday, the US moved its flights out of airspace around the Crimean peninsula and the eastern Black Sea. according to CNN.