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Jan 24, 01:06
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Blinken: Beijing Olympics won’t affect Russia’s plans for Ukraine
The holding of the Winter Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20, will not affect Russia’s plans for a possible “invasion” of Ukraine, declared US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in an interview with CBS.
“I don’t think so,” he said in response to a related question. According to Blinken, Russia will make decisions “based on the assessments of the president [Владимира] Putin as to what is in her interests. The Secretary of State reiterated that the Russian side would face “tremendous consequences” in the event of aggression against Ukraine.
January 22 Bloomberg referring to an unnamed diplomat in Beijing, he said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping could have asked Putin “not to invade” Ukraine during the Olympics. As the agency wrote,
The head of the PRC seeks to strengthen his authority within the country on the eve of a possible third term in office and avoid a crisis in Europe, in this regard, the Chinese Foreign Ministry reminded countries of complying with the UN resolution on the Olympic Truce.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the article Bloomberg was published as part of an “information special operation by the relevant American services.” According to her, the American media cannot wait for Russia to “attack”, but this does not happen.
The Chinese Embassy in Russia called the data Bloomberg fake.
