Nuclear Arms XI Has Not Warned Putin, Moscow Says

The Kremlin has denied a report that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, personally warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine

- Pjotr Sauer

"No, I can't confirm it," Putin's spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters yesterday when asked about a Financial Times report that said Xi had delivered the message when he visited Moscow in March. Peskov said the two countries had issued statements at the time on the content of their talks, calling all other reports "fiction".