China on Sunday expressed its support for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin following the uprising of the Wagner paramilitary group, the Russian foreign ministry said.
“On the Chinese side, they expressed their support for the efforts of the leaders of the Russian Federation to normalize the situation in the country in light of the events of June 24. [sábado]”, day marked by the uprising, Russian diplomacy said in a statement.
China’s statement comes after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko was received by China’s head of diplomacy, Gin Gang, in Beijing.
At the meeting, the government led by Xi Jinping also “reaffirmed its interest in strengthening Russia’s unity and prosperity”.
Beijing indicated that Qin Gang and Rudenko also discussed “Sino-Russian relations and international and regional issues of common concern”.
These diplomatic contacts between Beijing and Moscow come as Russia is shaken by the brief uprising of the Wagner paramilitary group, which has taken over several military installations in the south of the country.
North Korea also expressed its full support for Russia. In a meeting with Russia’s ambassador to Pyongyang, Alexander Matsegora, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Im Chon Il “expressed his firm belief that the recent armed uprising in Russia will be successfully suppressed,” the North Korean news agency reported. KCNA.
According to KCNA, Im Chon Il said that “Russian army and Russian people will surely overcome difficulties and emerge heroically victorious from the special military operation against Ukraine.”
For Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, quoted by the French agency AFP, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the “stability of the Russian state”.
“There will be implications for the Russia-China-North Korea bloc and officials in Beijing and Pyongyang are no doubt taking notes to avoid repeating Moscow’s mistakes.”he added.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Saturday suspended movements of the uprising in Russia against the military command, less than 24 hours after occupying Rostov, a key city in the south of the country before the war in Ukraine .
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the group’s action an insurrection, saying it was a “mortal threat” to the Russian state and a betrayal.
At the end of the day on Saturday, which reported the advance of Wagner troops to about 200 kilometers from Moscow, Prigozhin announced that he had negotiated an agreement with the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Source: DN
