Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that Russia might come to ‘regret’ invading Ukraine during talks in Beijing.
It is believed the remarks were made in the course of the US president’s summit in China last week, where the 2 world leaders are thought to have discussed plenty of issues, including trade and the war in Ukraine.
A source aware of Xi’s previous meetings with former president Joe Biden told said these comments were unprecedented for the Chinese leader, who hadn’t previously offered an assessment of the Ukraine war, in accordance with the Financial Times.
The revelation comes as Vladimir Putin, an in depth ally of Xi, flew to Beijing for talks with the world leader.
The Russian President has doubled down on his onslaught in Ukraine despite claiming he wants ‘peace’ and expressing his ‘regret’ at starting the war.
Putin, in a message to the Chinese people, said: ‘We don’t ally ourselves against anyone, but reasonably work for peace and universal prosperity.’
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Nevertheless, the Kremlin boss went on to launch one other savage attack on Ukraine near the border with Romania, sending NATO warplanes within the country scrambling.
An announcement from Romania’s military command said: ‘Russian forces carried out a brand new series of drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, within the vicinity of the river border with Romania, in Tulcea county.’
At the identical time, there have been recent warnings that Russia is planning an attack on the NATO states within the Baltic region, stoking World War III fears.
Drills involving tactical nuclear weapons at the moment are underway in Belarus, which borders alliance states Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Belarusian people have been banned from entering forests near the borders with Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine during these drills.
These are a part of wider three-day Russian nuclear drills starting today, involving greater than 64,000 military personnel and seven,800-plus units of apparatus in exercises ‘on using nuclear forces within the event of a threat of aggression’.
There have also been reports that Putin is planning a summer offensive in Ukraine’s Donbas region – but some consider it is a front for a limited invasion within the Baltic States, to check NATO.
Last week, it was reported that Russia is stockpiling tons of of 1000’s of fibre-optic drones for a future assault on NATO and the Baltic States.
Reports from Ukrainian and Russian intelligence have shown that Putin diverted huge numbers of next-generation FPV drones away from the Ukrainian front and into rear depots since late 2025.
The Kremlin may have already got amassed as much as 130,000 fibre-optic drones, a stockpile that would rise to 200,000 by the tip of summer.
FPV drones are especially dangerous because they use hair-thin fibre-optic cables reasonably than radio signals, making them far harder to jam electronically by NATO defences.
Russian military insiders consider the weapons could overwhelm Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania within the opening stages of an assault designed to shock Europe into submission before NATO can fully react.
The Kremlin sees the Baltic states as uniquely vulnerable because, although they possess advanced electronic warfare capabilities, they lack Ukraine’s combat experience with mass drone warfare.
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