No matter how much Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin swear their mutual friendship to the outside world, Russia’s missile attacks on Kyiv early Tuesday morning probably did not win them any points in Beijing. Only a few hours before the Chinese special envoy Li Hui arrived, the Russian army fired hypersonic missiles at the Ukrainian capital. Mayor Vitali Klitschko spoke of „one of the fiercest attacks on Kyiv since the beginning of the war.“