Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Monday afternoon for a three-day state visit to Russia, at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Xi arrived in Moscow on Monday afternoon for a three-day state visit to Russia, at the invitation of Putin.

The Chinese president was the first leader to meet Putin since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him on Friday over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia during its year-old invasion of Ukraine.