Putin holds first in-person talks with China’s Xi since invading Ukraine

By AFP 15 September 2022, 3:10 pm

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 15, 2022. (Alexandr Demyanchuk/Sputnik/AFP)

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Russian President Vladimir Putin blasts attempts to create a “unipolar world” and praises China’s “balanced” approach to Ukraine, as he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan.

Holding their first in-person talks since the start of the Ukraine conflict, Putin takes a clear broadside at the United States, saying: “Attempts to create a unipolar world have recently acquired an absolutely ugly form and are completely unacceptable.”