Xi Jinping to visit Moscow on 9 May, Russian ambassador says
Pravda Ukraine
Chinese leader Xi Jinping plans to visit Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in World War II on 9 May.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian newspaper Interfax, citing a statement by Russian Ambassador to Beijing Igor Morgulov on Russia-24 state-run TV channel
Quote from Morgulov: “Chinese leader Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation to attend the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War [as Russian historians refer to the war between Nazi Germany and the USSR] on 9 May in Moscow.”
Details: He also noted that Xi had invited Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to China for the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the anti-Japanese war, scheduled for early September.
Reports indicate that Beijing has not yet commented on this information.
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