The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has arrived in Astana to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit that will be held in the capital of Kazakhstan.
This was announced by the press office of the Kremlin, quoted by the Tass agency.
Putin has scheduled bilateral meetings in Astana with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The face-to-face meeting with the Chinese counterpart comes as, in Europe, as reported by EU officials to Bloomberg, there are growing fears that Chinese companies are developing attack drones similar to those of the Shahed type to help Russia in its war against Ukraine.
According to Bloomberg sources, Chinese and Russian industries have held talks in 2023 to develop such a mass-produced attack drone. Such drones have not yet been used in Ukraine.
In a statement to Bloomberg, the spokesman for the Chinese embassy in the United States, Liu Pengyu, denied that Beijing was providing lethal aid to Russia and called on Western countries to “immediately stop inciting war and inciting confrontation.”
