China’s adulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin has reached dizzying new heights with the release of a slick propaganda video lavishing praise on Russia and its leader.

Produced by a secretive studio that has also made cartoons promoting Chinese leaders, the video was released online ahead of a visit by China’s President Xi Jinping to Moscow to attend a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

It shows Chinese people answering a series of questions about Russia and Mr. Putin, who is widely admired in China as strong, patriotic leader and who receives persistently flattering coverage in state media.

The answers send a not-so-subtle message about the warming ties between China and Russia, which are drawing closer together due in part to Western sanctions on Moscow and an apparently close personal relationship between Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi.

“Putin is very good,” answers one interviewee in the video.