China sent a former ambassador to the Russian Federation with Putin's awards: what is known about him

This was announced on Wednesday, April 26, by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of China Hua Chunin. "China will send a special representative of the PRC government in Eurasian affairs to Ukraine and other countries for in-depth communication with all parties on political regulation of the Ukrainian crisis," Chunin wrote in her Twitter account.

According to open sources, a special representative of the China Government for Eurasia is Lee Huai, who from August 2009 to August 2019 was an extraordinary and authorized Ambassador of the PRC in the Russian Federation. During his work in Russia, a Chinese diplomat received two state awards, one of them - "Order of Friendship" - in 2019 was presented personally by President Vladimir Putin in May 2019. Lee Huey's biography says he has been working with Russia for a long time.

He began working in the diplomatic service in 1975 - an employee of the USSR and Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. In 1985, Haya began working at the China Embassy in the USSR, where he served until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1991, the first secretary of the China Embassy in the Russian Federation. From 1992 to 1999 he worked in Kazakhstan, and in 2009 he returned with the diplomatic service to Russia.

We will remind, on April 26 it became known that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the head of the PRC Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation. Chinese state television reported that the Chinese leader informed a Ukrainian colleague that the PRC has sent a representative in Eurasian affairs to Ukraine and other countries for in -depth communication with all parties on the "political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis".