Putin accepted the proposal of Xi Jinping to come to China in October

Vladimir Putin, before starting negotiations with the Foreign Minister of the PRC Van and reported that he accepted the invitation of Xi Jinping and would come to Beijing in October, Vedomosti reported . The formal reason for the trip, he called the presence on the forum "One belt - one path."

Van previously met with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov. According to the results of the meeting, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that attempts to resolve the “crisis” in Ukraine are hopeless “without taking into account interests and even more without Russia's participation”.

The fact that Putin could come to China, in August, wrote Bloomberg with reference to sources. This will be his first foreign trip from the time that the International Criminal Court issued an order to arrest him. Putin missed both the Big Twenty summit in India and the BRICS summit in South Africa.