North Korean leader invited to visit Russia as Zelenskyy says Putin is displaying ‘impunity’ with new Ukraine strikes
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Vladimir Putin has invited Kim Jong-un to visit Russia during a lengthy meeting in Beijing on the sidelines of China’s biggest military parade, as Kim promised to do “everything I can to assist” Moscow.
The invitation, made through interpreters and shown in a video published by the Kremlin, came as Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused Putin of demonstrating his “impunity” with fresh strikes on Ukraine overnight.
Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, were in the Chinese capital as guests of Xi Jinping for a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, known in China as the war of resistance against Japanese aggression.
