Putin calls Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan “provocation”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticised the visit of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.

This trip was part of a "purposeful, conscious US strategy to destabilize and chaoticize the situation in the region and the world," Kommersant quotes Putin as saying.

Putin discussed the scandalous visit of the top American official in an address to the participants of the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security on August 16.

The Russian president is sure that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was "a brazen demonstration of disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries and their international obligations".

“We see this as a carefully planned provocation,” he said.