, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin sent his best wishes to Xi, saying the two leaders had developed a good friendship and working relations. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday lauded what he described as important 'high-tech' Russian military cooperation with China at a meeting in Moscow with a top Chinese general who is a close ally of President Xi Jinping.Ĭhina and Russia declared a 'no limits' partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing just days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two.
