Leaders met in Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Summit, with Xi Jinping hosting Eurasian member, partner and observer states including Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi. Xi urged opposition to cold war mentality, bloc confrontation and bullying, called for upholding the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, and pledged 2bn yuan in free aid plus 10bn yuan in loans to a SCO banking consortium. Putin blamed a coup and Western attempts to bring Ukraine into Nato for provoking the conflict. The fighting has killed tens of thousands and devastated much of eastern Ukraine. The summit seeks to challenge Western-led multilateral blocs.
Xi Jinping has criticised the bullying behaviour of other countries while Vladimir Putin has blamed the west for his war on Ukraine, on the second day of a major summit in China which seeks to challenge western-led multilateral blocs. The Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO) began in the city of Tianjin on Sunday, with Xi welcoming dozens of leaders from Eurasian member states and other partner and observer countries, including Putin, and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
In a speech to delegates on Monday, Putin claimed the war was not triggered by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but was a result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported and provoked by the west. The second reason for the crisis is the west's constant attempts to drag Ukraine into Nato, the Russian president added. Russia's three-and-a-half year war has killed tens of thousands of people and devastated much of eastern Ukraine.
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