Chinese president during the phone call with Russian counterpart Putin
China welcomes “positive efforts made by Russia and other parties interested in solving the crisis” in Ukraine. President Xi Jinping, speaking on the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the request of the latter, recalled that last September China, Brazil and some countries of the global South “jointly founded the ‘Friends of Peace’ group on the crisis Ukraine to create an atmosphere and accumulate the conditions to promote a political solution to the crisis “. Putin informed XI “about the latest developments in contacts between Russia and the United States”, reported the CCTV.