‘This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,’ Joe Biden said of Vladimir Putin as troops pulled back north of Kyiv. Follow updates here.
While Russian troops have battered Ukraine, officials in China have been meeting behind closed doors to study a Communist Party-produced documentary that extols President Vladimir Putin of Russia as a hero.
Around the country, the Communist Party has organised sessions for officials to watch and discuss the history documentary. The 101 minute-long video, which was completed last year, does not mention the war in Ukraine but argues that Russia is right to worry about neighbours that broke away from the Soviet Union. It describes Putin as cleansing Russia of the political toxins that killed the Soviet Union.
But China has so far refused to condemn Putin for the war, which has killed thousands of civilians. Despite pressure from other world leaders to use its influence over Moscow to help end the crisis, Beijing has done little besides call for peace. And Thursday, Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, expressed his country’s commitment to strong ties with Moscow during talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in China.
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