Putin in May intends to visit China and meet with Xi Jinping - Reuters

This visit can be the first foreign trip to the Kremlin head after re -election for a new presidential term. In May, Russian leader Vladimir Putin intends to go to China, where his talks with Xi Jinping will take place. This is stated in Reuters. Thus, this can be the first foreign visit to the Kremlin's head from the moment of its re -election by the President for the duty in particular, Putin's intention to visit Beijing confirmed one of the sources of anonymity.

Four more sources provided details, and they also wished to remain unnamed. The Kremlin head is expected to visit China, most likely, in the second half of May before the planned trip to Europe begins. It is known that the Western governments have already made statements that condemned Putin's re -election into a undemocratic and unfair and undemocratic way.

At the same time, the authorities of China, India and North Korea have already congratulated it on another term of the board, which will last six years. At the same time, they pointed to the line of geopolitical fault, which expanded in 2022 with the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In recent years, Chinese-Russian relations in the field of trade have only intensified through the introduction of the United States and their partners of sanctions against both countries, including Moscow, through the war in Ukraine. The authorities of the two countries announced the beginning of the "without borders" partnership in February 2022, when Putin's visit to Beijing took place only a few days before a full -scale invasion.

According to foreign observers and diplomats, Putin can make China his first visit after election. On May 7, an official delegation of Iorugation of Vladimir Putin has already been planned. Earlier, Putin made a statement about the similarity of global views of Russia and China, and two countries have a steady relationship not least thanks to the good relationships of Putin and Xi Jinping. Therefore, in the future, Moscow and Beijing plan to develop connections in the near future.