China and Russia should jointly safeguard their security and development interests, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the visiting Russian parliament speaker on Tuesday, in their efforts to build a more "equitable" international order.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who touted the guarantees with other European leaders when they conferred with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, was in Ukraine on Friday to lay out a framework to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.