{"id":71592,"date":"2025-05-08T01:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/xi-jinping-begins-russia-visit-china-ukrainian-drones-moscow"},"modified":"2025-05-08T01:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:20:33","slug":"xi-jinping-begins-four-day-russia-visit-after-ukrainian-drones-attack-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71592","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping begins four-day Russia visit after Ukrainian drones attack Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader is scheduled to attend Victory Day parade and hold talks with Vladimir Putin<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for the start of a four-day visit during which he will attend Russia\u2019s military parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of the second world war, known in Russia as Victory Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese leader\u2019s trip has coincided with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/06\/ukraine-drones-raid-moscow\">mass Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital<\/a>. Moscow\u2019s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said Russia\u2019s air defence units destroyed at least 19 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/xi-jinping-begins-russia-visit-china-ukrainian-drones-moscow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader is scheduled to attend Victory Day parade and hold talks with Vladimir PutinXi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for the start of a four-day visit during which he will attend Russia\u2019s military parade commemorating the anniversary of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,419,930,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71592\/revisions\/71593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}