NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the first phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy since Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Zelenskiy, describing the hour-long phone call as "long and meaningful", signalled the importance of the chance to open closer relations with Russia's most powerful friend, naming a former cabinet minister as Ukraine's new ambassador to Beijing.
"Ukraine and China, like the absolute majority of the world, are equally interested in the strength of the sovereignty of nations and territorial integrity," he said. "As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a responsible major country, we will neither sit idly by, nor pour oil on fire, still less seek to profit from it," Xi said.but said it was too soon to tell whether it would lead to a peace deal.
"There can be no peace at the expense of territorial compromises," Zelenskiy said in a Twitter post on Wednesday.Ukrainian officials have long urged Beijing to use its influence in Russia to help end the war.
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