News Snapshot:
Fresh from brokering a major diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran, China’s President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow carrying his proposals for a peace plan for Ukraine. But Russia and Ukraine, both reluctant peacemakers at present, will be a tougher nut to crack -– the proposed plan apparently says nothing about a withdrawal of the former from Ukrainian territory, a prerequisite of any agreement by Kyiv to a ceasefire. Putin said Xi’s proposals could provide the basis of settlement but only when the West was ready. Xi’s expected call today to President Volodymyr Zelensky would appear unlikely to be...
