The Russian leader communicates the news to his Chinese counterpart before it became official. Minutes after reports emerged about a first meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, although there was no official announcement yet regarding the exact day and location,

Trump aims to break up the Putin-Xi alliance through a "reverse Kissinger" strategy, and experts suggest Russia could be pushed away from China rather than vice versa.

The remarks came ahead of Trump’s planned talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

But the U.S. president said Xi had also delivered an implicit warning about Taiwan’s future, telling him that he is “very patient, and China is very patient.”

China is pleased to see Russia and the United States maintaining contact and improving ties to advance a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis, President Xi Jinping said in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

President Xi Jinping expressed China's support for improved relations between Russia and the United States, particularly regarding a political resolut

Putin spoke with Xi Jinping about a possible Ukraine settlement and briefed him on US envoy Steve Witkoff's visit to Moscow, Beijing said.

Calling India the "Maharaj" of tariffs, US President Donald Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, accused New Delhi of running a "profiteering scheme" by continuing to import Russian oil.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and three ex-Soviet states on Friday in a flurry of calls to brief them on his contacts with the United States about the war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office. Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.