Zelensky holds first war phone-call with China's Xi

Ukraine's Volodymr Zelensky says helium has had a "long and meaningful" telephone telephone with China's Xi Jinping, their archetypal interaction since Russia's warfare began.

He said connected Twitter helium believed the call, on with the assignment of an ambassador to Beijing, would "give a almighty impetus to the improvement of our bilateral relations".

China confirmed the call, adding that it "always stood connected the broadside of peace".

Until now, Beijing has sought to amusement a neutral stance connected the Russian invasion.

But it has ne'er condemned the penetration and past period President Xi paid a two-day authorities sojourn to Russia.

He referred to President Vladimir Putin arsenic his "dear friend", proposed a vague 12-point bid plan and insisted that China stood connected the close broadside of history. However, helium made nary committedness to providing Russia with weapons.

Within days of the visit, President Zelensky invited the Chinese person to sojourn Kyiv for talks, noting that they had had interaction earlier the full-scale warfare but thing since it began successful February 2022.

In a readout of Wednesday's telephone call, China's CCTV quoted President Xi arsenic saying that China would "neither ticker the occurrence from the different side, nor adhd substance to the fire, fto unsocial instrumentality vantage of the situation to profit".