(CNN)A Western intelligence list indicated that Chinese language officers in early February requested that senior Russian officers wait unless after the Beijing Olympics had done earlier than starting an invasion into Ukraine, US officers said Wednesday.
US officers broadly glimpse the list as credible, nonetheless its particulars are inaugurate to interpretation, in step with one source acquainted with the intelligence. Even though the quiz changed into made around the time that Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing for the gap ceremony of the Olympics — where he met with Chinese language President Xi Jinping — it is now not sure from the list whether Putin addressed the topic with Xi straight, the source said.
The New York Occasions first reported the existence of the list.
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