Putin says Xi to visit Russia, ties reaching ‘new frontiers’

Chinese weapons supplies to Russia would threaten a potential escalation of the Ukraine war into a confrontation between Russia and China on the one side and Ukraine and the US-led NATO military alliance on the other.

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that China’s Xi Jinping would visit Russia, saying relations had reached “new frontiers” amid US concerns that Beijing could provide material support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.