China stated on Monday it sought dialogue and peace for Ukraine regardless of U.S. warnings that it may be contemplating weapons provides for its ally Russia’s invasion.
Air raid sirens blared in the capital Kyiv and different cities in a single day and a Russian missile killed one particular person in the western city of Khmelnitskyi, Mayor Oleksandr Symshyshyn stated on the Telegram messaging app. The all-clear sounded after dawn.
China, which declared a “no limits” alliance with Russia shortly before the invasion a year ago, has refused to condemn the onslaught, most recently at a weekend meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) major economies.
On Friday, the first anniversary of the war, China published a 12-point plan calling for a ceasefire and gradual de-escalation by both sides, warning against the use of nuclear weapons and saying conflict benefited no one.
Kyiv struck a receptive tone while reiterating there can be no peace without a total Russian withdrawal – a non-starter for Moscow – but Beijing’s proposals cut little ice among Ukraine’s NATO military alliance supporters.
On Monday, China said it had kept contact with all sides in the crisis including Kyiv and its position was clear.
“The core is to call for peace and promote dialogue and promote a political solution to the crisis,” overseas ministry spokesperson Mao Ning informed a information briefing in Beijing.
NATO allies say they’re making an attempt to dissuade China from supplying deadly help to Russia, probably together with drones. Moscow’s forces are struggling to make features in east Ukraine whereas Kyiv is eyeing a counter-offensive with superior Western weapons, together with battle tanks, pledged over the approaching months.
CIA Director William Burns stated on the weekend the U.S. intelligence company believed Beijing was contemplating army help to Russia although it had not reached a closing resolution.
“If it goes down that street it should come at actual prices to China,” U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN.
Casting the Ukraine war as a battle for Russia’s survival against a rapacious West, Russian President Vladimir Putin last week hailed “new frontiers” in ties with Beijing and indicated that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would quickly go to Moscow.
“They have one purpose: to disband the previous Soviet Union and its elementary half – the Russian Federation,” Putin told Rossiya 1 state television.
‘NO FLEEING’
NATO and the West dismiss this narrative, saying their objective in supporting Kyiv is to help it repel an imperial-style land grab by Moscow, which has called its fellow former Soviet republic an artificial state.
Putin’s framing of the war as an existential threat to Russia accords him greater freedom in the types of weapons he could one day use, including possibly nuclear firepower.
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and an ally of Putin, said in remarks published on Monday that the West’s supply of arms to Kyiv risked a global nuclear catastrophe.
A political adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed Russia’s version.
“When the Russian Federation talks about a nuclear conflict… two questions arise,” Mykailo Podolyak tweeted. “Why did you assault one other nation? Do you ask the world to provide the proper to kill one other nation’s residents with impunity, and in the event you’re overwhelmed, you scream, ‘Don’t contact us’?!”
Ukraine’s outgunned and outnumbered but better organised and more nimble forces repelled Russia’s attempt to seize Kyiv early in the war and later retook swathes of occupied territory in the east and south. But Moscow still controls nearly a fifth of Ukraine, which it claims to have annexed.
On front lines, Ukrainian ground forces commander Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi visited Bakhmut, the bombed-out city in Donetsk province that has been the focus of a Russian artillery and infantry assault for months as Moscow tries to take full control of the eastern Donbas industrial region.
In Luhansk province, the largely Russian-occupied northern half of the Donbas, Moscow has escalated shelling and infantry assaults in the embattled Bilohoryvka, Svatove-Kupiansk and Kreminna areas, Ukraine’s Luhansk governor said on Monday.
“There is no fleeing, our units do not leave territory. Moreover, there is success in certain sectors. They are advancing, they can deoccupy areas. Of course, everything can change at any moment,” Serhiy Haidai informed state tv.
“On the opposite hand, Western offensive heavy tools is on the way in which and subsequently in any week the army command can conduct an operation following the identical plan as they did in the Kharkiv area.” he said, referring to Ukraine’s recapture of a northeastern sector from Russian forces last year.
Read all of the Latest News right here
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed)
