Russia is ready for negotiations, but since there will no longer be anyone in istanbul to count legitimate government in ukraine, is an olympic truce possible and what is the plan of the Russian Armed forces in the kharkov region, we will be forced to create a safe zone. Russia has never refused negotiations in ukraine, but the basis should be the istanbul agreements, and not ultimatums based on some unknown formulas. There are no plans to capture kharkov today, and those who demand that moscow respect the olympic truce must first stop violating the olympic charter and politicizing sports. All these are Vladimir Putins answers to journalists questions following his state visit to china. The president spent this day in. Where the deputy chairman of the peoples republic of china met, opened a joint trade and industrial exhibition, and also communicated with students and even visited an Orthodox Church. About the results of the meeting, the main topics of negotiations from china, my colleagues alexander baletsky and alexander khristenko. It was clear that putin would be asked not only about china; the ukrainian conflict is a hot topic here, especially since the western press insists on everything, the russians are preparing for the assault on kharkov and putin is asked to tell. As for what is happening in the kharkov direction, it is their fault, because they fired and continue, unfortunately. Shell residential areas border territories, including belgorod, well , civilians are dying there, its still obvious that they are shooting right in the city center, in residential areas, and i said publicly that if this continues, we will be forced to create a security zone, a sanitary zone, so this is what we are doing, but as for kharkov, there are no such plans. For today. Putin does not hide, they talked about ukraine, he and the head of the peoples republic of china were at the residence of jun naanhai, where xi invites guests extremely rarely, and certainly not all of them. I shizen pin openly shared with the russian president some details of his trip to europe, where they tried, if not to win him over to the side of the west, then at least to influence moscow to agree to the socalled swiss conference, where kiev, together with. Its patrons, is promoting a certain formula, we are not going to discuss any formulas that we dont know, of course, we are not going to discuss, but we have never refused negotiations, unlike the ukrainian side, they withdrew from the negotiation process, they said that they were going to inflict a strategic defeat on us, they said that we would fight to the end, actually not to the end, to the last ukrainian, to the last it may be possible, but it will not be possible to inflict it. The political system of ukraine itself would even say so, but for us this of course matters, because if it comes to signing some documents, of course we must sign documents in such fateful areas with legitimate authorities, this is an obvious fact, but for now the credit of trust has been exhausted , but putin was still asked what thinks about macrons initiative to declare an olympic truce for the duration of the paris games and isnt this a trap for. Including in this case in relation to russia, not allowing our athletes to perform at the Olympic Games with their banner, with their flag and anthem, in they violate us in their relations, but they want us, in turn, to follow the rules that are dictated to us, this. It doesnt occur to anyone whether this corresponds to some elementary norms of justice, there is nothing like that, they violate it themselves, but from us demand fulfillment, well, dear friends, we wont be leaving for a long time, in order to demand or expect something from others, we ourselves need to follow these rules, they also talk about sports without politics in china all the time, and also about the economy, the usa and europe at least declares from the stands that they want to work with china. On chips, semiconductors, metal, solar panels, and most importantly on chinese electric cars , the duty was increased fourfold, in my opinion, to 100 . Can this be considered sanctions against china . Does cooperation between russia and china help to resist such attacks . Politics, the nature of relations between russia and china, the situation in ukraine, i assure you, have nothing to do with this, these are simply elements of dishonesty. Competition, we made ms21 aircraft, so they were certain components that we agreed on and which had nothing to do with military production, well , certain components had to be inserted into the wings, which means they simply refused us everything, including sanctions list, and one that is related to military production, but nothing to do with the military there was no production there and no, but we lost time, this production shifted. For about six months, but we ourselves made these components, these harnesses there for for the wings, we made them well, and even better than american production in terms of quality and durability of their use, the same result will be here, russian experience countering sanctions against china may be useful; by the way, such sanctions are applied by the same americans or europeans against even their own allies mutually, well. Not only in relation to russia, but in relation to other situations and to other countries, and this is a practice, and the europeans, therefore, swallow all this, well, once again confirming their vassal dependence on the sovereign overseas , well, god be with them, they are weakening their main, main, most important instrument of their power, the dollar itself, causing themselves irreparable damage in general. That is, to put it trivially in our, so to speak, wellknown sayings, they are simply sawing the branch on which they themselves are sitting, terrible stupidity, already 90 settlements in moscow and beijing in national currencies, and this greatly simplifies the work. Putin had not yet left china when the pages of local newspapers began to analyze his conversation with the chairman of the peoples republic of china. According to chinese experts, moscow and beijing are providing each other with unprecedented mutual support in conditions of global turbulence and the conditions for the development of our countries are improving the wellbeing of the peoples of china and russia. Federation. This is what our countries will continue to achieve as the main outcome of the big negotiations. Alexander baalsky, natalya lundovskaya, anna kolk, nikolai petrov, news from harbin, china. Stands of Russian Companies in one pavilion in the form of a moscowbeijing train. The unusual design of the exhibition, like a vivid image, shows how many things connect both countries. Vladimir putin launched the russianchinese expo, a largescale trade and industrial event. Business exhibitions, and a forum on interregional cooperation was organized here in harbin. Since its founding at the end of the 19th century, harbin has personified the closest ties and intertwined destinies of the peoples of russia and china. Mutual enrichment of cultures and traditions. By the way, so we drove through the center of the city, its historical part preserves and. This is good, you can immediately feel it, it also preserves the russian trace, because our specialists from russia, engineers, scientists made a noticeable contribution to the economy in their time. City development. These days, business cooperation is on the rise. 16 russian regions are represented on the site, from primorye, which is geographically close to china, to moscow and chelyabinsk. Iit technologies, agribusiness enterprises, metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering and global logistics. The head of rusatom reported to the president , that a special subcommittee of russia and china on the northern sea route has now been created. We see the potential to increase to 50 million tons of chinese transit by the thirtieth year along the northern sea route. The chinese part of the exposition showed putin the pride of the prc and electric cars; there are also promising joint projects in this area, but of course, such a rich Economic Life would not have existed without Political Mutual understanding at the highest level. After yesterdays detailed conversation between tetatet and the chinese leader xidinping, Vladimir Putin today in harbin met with the deputy chairman. Yesterday in beijing you held talks with chairman xijinping and reached important agreements; we will definitely carry out all your instructions. In harbin, the history of russia and china seemed to merge into one. The city was founded by russians on chinese territory, first as a railway station. After the revolution , thousands of people flocked to harbin from russia, settling here and building hospitals, schools, colleges, and, of course, churches. Putin visited the only Orthodox Church operating in china, intercession of the holy mother of god. The abbot, chinese father yushi, serves here, and father alexander at the baptism. The president presented the icon the savior not made by hands, painted in sofrin. And in august 45. Vtb bank. Today, a corresponding agreement was signed between the graduate school of management of spbu, the school of export of the Russian Export Center and the school of management of harbin Polytechnic University. The Main Building of this Chinese University even looks like moscow state university; it was built in 1965 based on the architecture of moscow university, and the Polytechnic University was founded in harbin, our compatriots back in the twentysecond year, as a russianchinese technical school. Russian engineers brought equipment. Conducted classes, already in the twentysecond year they switched to a fiveyear education, a new stage began in the postwar period, soviet specialists generously shared knowledge, experience and technologies that were unavailable to the prc at that time. Today, harbin polytechnic institute, the intellectual basis of chinese high technologies, chips, robots, technology, aviation, including combat aviation, space, all this comes out of these walls, and this same space for cooperation, russia and china have plans for joint exploration of the moon. Our country has already begun the development of a Nuclear Installation for the russianchinese lunar station. The president was shown the latest developments, including a robotic arm designed to work in space together with a person. Putin shook hands with the chinese robot. You can try shaking hands. Yours. But the main thing is still live communication in connection with the arrival of the russian president at harbin university. Excitement. Questions pour in one after another about putins hobbies, sports, music and even his favorite chinese dishes. Everyone knows peking duck, in russia its absolutely 100 , for example, yesterday my friend and the chairman of the peoples republic of china treated me to this peking duck, ill tell you honestly, there are two pieces of it there, i think ill only eat one piece, well you see, thats it. But i couldnt resist, i ate the second one, you see, it was already painfully delicious, both the russian people and the chinese are very hospitable, we love guests, we love friends, we enjoy them we always meet in the hall, including students from russia studying in harbin, who admit that the president of the country is an example for them in everything, your perseverance and foresight has always inspired me to grow. Dont know. It happened, but in general it seems to me that i, like many people, like all people, lack a lot, i still have to work on myself, when a person is critical of himself, believes that he still needs to do a lot and work a lot over himself, then, probably, he achieves success. Russians and chinese are among the most reading nations in the world. The generation was brought up on the russian classics, tolstoy, chekhov and dostoevsky. After each answer, applause is heard; the audience was also struck by how the president reacted to the blockade in the city, because there were Police Officers at almost every intersection. I just want to apologize to the residents of the city for the fact that with our arrival, as i saw, such rather stringent security measures were taken. I am not guilty. But local comrades work professionally, toughly, i i understand everything, this is probably how it should be, but in any case it causes certain inconvenience for citizens, the press works here, excuse me, please, it means that we will be leaving soon, your life will return to normal, Vladimir Putin was seen off with a standing ovation, just those who will soon build. Russia highly values the personal contribution of the president of kazakhstan in the development of Strategic Partnership and alliance between the two countries, as well as interaction within the framework of the European Union, csto, cis and sco. This is stated in the congratulatory telegram that Vladimir Putin sent kasym to zhamart takaev, on occasion. Relations with the leader of kazakhstan and intends to continue working together for the benefit of the two fraternal peoples. Russian troops liberated 12 settlements in the kharkov region. This is stated in the weekly report of the ministry of defense. Borisovka, bugrovatka, gatishche, ogurtsova, oleynikovo, pletnyovka, dusty and streleschya came under the control of our fighters. A subdivision of the north Group Continues to advance into the depths of the enemys defense. Nine brigades of the Ukrainian Armed forces and the Defense Forces were defeated in areas of vesely, volchansk, dergachi and leptsov. 21 counterattacks of Ukrainian Armed forces assault groups were repelled near the villages of tikhoy and staritsa. Fierce fighting took place all week near artyomovsk in the vicinity of chasovo yar. Our troops are here. They are also pushing through the defenses of the kiev regime. The Ukrainian Armed forces lost more than 3,700 troops, eight tanks were shot down, including five german leopards. A unit of the group of forces center liberated the village of keramik near donetsk, in zaporozhye the enemy was completely driven out of rabotin. Four were destroyed by missiles, artillery and drones. Mi24 helicopter in the parking lot. Patriot division, aviation equipment and ammunition depots at five military airfields. From may 11 to may 17 , the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out 28 group strikes with highprecision weapons from unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which command posts, military airfield infrastructure facilities, air defense facilities, arsenals, a fuel base of the Ukrainian Armed forces, as well as production workshops and sites were hit. Storage of unmanned attack boats and unmanned aerial vehicles. Also points of temporary deployment of units of nationalist formations of foreign mercenaries were hit. New attacks on the military infrastructure of ukraine were inflicted this day. In the suburbs of odessa, after the arrival , a strong fire started. Local media reported that the target of the attack was hangars where nato ammunition was stored. Powerful explosions were heard in kharkov. Eyewitnesses publish videos showing a giant column of smoke. In the kharkov region, a unit of the sever gur group from a position on the southern outskirts of the city. Destroyed in zaporozhye a truck that was transporting an american howitzer. M 777. Footage of the Russian Army Using aircrafttype drones also appeared online. With their help , a pickup truck and the saugvozdika temporary deployment point of the enemy were hit. Losses in the ssu over the past 7 days along the entire line of contact exceeded 9,500 military personnel. Aviation and air Defense Forces shot down six mig29 and su27 fighters. On the administrative border of the donetsk and lugansk peoples republics, fighting broke out in areas. Large enemy drones, the crew of this the car was shot down during a recent exit by a dangerous jupiter h3 drone. The target was moving in the direction of artyomovsk popasnoe, the target was detected at a distance of 75 km from the starting position at an altitude of approximately 4 dash 5 km. The buk complex is an important element of air defense, together with other systems it allows us to ensure our air supremacy, therefore for the enemy the buk is a priority target, our fighters provide it. Maximum camouflage protection of their positions both from the air and from the ground. Two machine guns are connected, a video camera with a thermal imager, that is, at night the rotating mechanism can also work, this is a remote machine gun turret, which seriously affects seemingly simple technical solutions, but seriously affects the nature of combat operations, the fighter who controls it is hundreds of meters from here, the turret is controlled, without risking the life of a fighter. Firing, protection from. Hunting rifles are effectively used to protect against enemy drones, but in order to provide each fighter in the Missile Division with new types of weapons, they are produced directly at front, here is an underbarrel shotgun, a 12 mm caliber hunting cartridge and a shotgun of the same caliber, created literally from scrap materials. The cost of this product is 1. 00 rub. A battery, a safety button, and a start button are installed here. Everything is useful. Which helps defend the position and cause damage to the enemy. The intensity of our air Defense Systems is growing, although the enemy is using more and more drones and missiles, they are being destroyed effectively, while our units are operating to increase the level of security as mobile and covert as possible. The enemy is trying to open the positions of command posts, our headquarters, our unit has formed just such a command post on the basis of our beloved loafs vuaz. Beech m1. 2 again received the task of destroying the target. The 52nd separate Missile Division guards the sky day and night. Nikolai dlagachev, kirill genser, alexander pla