Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders for their support during last week's Wagner mutiny in a virtual meeting.
Putin extended his gratitude during a virtual meeting of the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, CNN reported, a little over a week after the Russian president's apparent first serious challenge to his grip on power in over a decade. In attendance were Xi, India's Narendra Modi, Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko, and Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, among others.
Putin's expression of gratitude may be to dissuade international suspicion of a rift between Russia and China after Xi remained mostly quiet during the short affair. The day after the end of the mutiny, China's Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement of support while adding that the matter was part of Russia's internal affairs.
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