XI AND PUTIN TO DISCUSS UKRAINE WAR AT MEETING

China’s leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Ukraine and other “international and regional topics” at their meeting later this week, the Kremlin says.

The two will meet in Uzbekistan at a summit that will show an “alternative” to the Western world, the Kremlin said.

Mr Xi is making his first trip overseas since the start of the pandemic.