The lines on Power of Siberia-2 fall well short of Putin's rhetoric, which made it sound like the pipeline was a done deal. It just says Russia and China will “make efforts to advance work on studying and agreeing” plans to build the pipeline. pic.twitter.com/3wvljGusWR
— max seddon (@maxseddon) March 21, 2023
From Beijing, here's the joint statement signed by Xi & Putin. Russia has violated the UN Charter through its invasion of Ukraine and other wars over the years. But both China and Russia say here the UN Charter "must be observed." https://t.co/JfMhjIYbaq pic.twitter.com/q9y4iIhNmJ
— Edward Wong (@ewong) March 21, 2023
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In the run up to EU meetings this week @oleksiireznikov told European ministers Ukraine needs 350,000 rounds a month to sustain operations, of which 120k are rounds of 155mm needed for western supplied artillery (1.44m a year). Without that things slow right down. Now we know 2/
— Mark Urban (@MarkUrban01) March 21, 2023
While there are some doubts about the exact sequencing of this EU supply, ie how much will be got to Ukraine in the next 2-3 key months, we also now know that a package announced by the US on 24/2 involves an additional 1 million 155mm rounds 4/ pic.twitter.com/AatD9fXgW3
— Mark Urban (@MarkUrban01) March 21, 2023
An Italian court has approved the extradition to the United States of Artyom Uss, a Russian entrepreneur accused of smuggling U.S. technologies to Russian arms manufacturers, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported.https://t.co/oT3Nk3653Y
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 21, 2023
If you're looking for the TL;DR on Xi's visit with Putin, it is this: China's domination of Russia is complete.
— Sam Greene (@samagreene) March 21, 2023
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