After the meeting with Wang
Putin he spoke at the patriotic concert at the Lushniki stadium in Moscow.
"In Ukraine - he said - a battle is going on" at our historical borders for our people ". "All our people - he added - are defenders of the fatherland ".
The meeting with Xi's envoy. Russian-Chinese relations "stabilize the international situation",
he assured
the Russian president, receiving the envoy of Chinese president Xi Jinping who also had an interview with Russian foreign minister Serghey Lavrov.
China, said Wang Yi according to Tass reports, remains "committed to developing relations with Russia despite the unstable situation in the world".
The Chinese envoy added that the senior diplomat expects to "reach new agreements" with Moscow.
Putin: 'The relationship with China stabilizes the international situation'
Putin rescinded a 2012 decree that in part upheld Moldova's sovereignty
as part of policies over the future of Transnistria, a Moscow-backed breakaway region that borders Ukraine and where Russia has troops.
The Guardian reports it.
The decree, which included a Moldovan component, outlined Russia's 11-year-old foreign policy that presupposed closer relations with the EU and the US.
The revocation was published on the Kremlin's website and said the decision was taken to "ensure Russian interests in relation to changes in international relations".
In the same hours
the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament and, immediately after, the upper house, approved the suspension of the New Start nuclear treaty with the USA for the limitation of nuclear weapons.
The law, approved unanimously, will enter into force at the time of publication.
ANSA Agency
Putin's nuclear arsenal, nearly 6,000 warheads - Europe
It is the largest in the world, the United States has 5,428
In the morning, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
spoke
.
"Russia," he said, "will be torn apart if it interrupts the special operation without winning. If the United States stops supplying the Kiev regime with weapons, the war will end."
"If the US wants Russia defeated, then
we have the right to defend ourselves with any weapon, including nuclear
: it is obvious to all reasonable forces that if the US wants Russia defeated, then we are on the verge of a global conflict", he added, explaining that
the time has come to include the strategic nuclear arsenals of Great Britain and France in the Treaty
of reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons (New START), "the suspension (so far) is linked precisely to this", said the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, as reported by the Tass.
ANSA Agency
Putin: "Tests on nuclear weapons if the US does them first" - World
"Our existence is at stake. Moscow wanted a peaceful solution in Ukraine to avoid military intervention, but the West was playing "with false cards to deceive us". So the Russian president told the Federal Assembly. And he mentions aid to Italy on Covid: "We know how to be friends". The reply from the USA. (ANSA)
Meanwhile, CNN reports that
Russia carried out a test of an ICBM
- SARMAT, nicknamed Satan II - which appears to have failed on Monday,
as President Joe Biden was about to arrive in Ukraine
, according to two US officials close to the dossier .
Cnn reports it.
Russia has given advance notice to the United States of the launch across deconfliction lines.
Another official said the test posed no risk to the US and was not considered an escalation.
President Putin made no mention of the launch in yesterday's speech.
The SARMAT carries nuclear warheads.
The timing of the test suggests that the United States and Russia were communicating through different channels earlier in the week for deconfliction purposes.
US officials notified the Russians on Sunday evening, hours before Biden's visit to Kiev, that the president would be traveling to the Ukrainian capital, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Monday.
The Sarmat missile has already been successfully tested in the past: according to US officials, if Monday's test was successful, Russian President Vladimir Putin would have emphasized it in his State of the Nation address yesterday.
Instead, Putin made no mention of the launch.
CNN had initially reported that the test took place while Biden was in Ukraine, based on information provided by some sources, but one of the officials later said that the test took place shortly before Biden was in the country.
And a second source specified that the test had been carried out on Monday, without providing a more precise timing.
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