ADVERTISEMENTUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he received information that China provides weapons to Russia, including barrel powder and artillery.
Speaking during a press briefing in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “We will be ready to discuss it in detail.”
“To date, we have information from the security service and information on cannon powder and artillery. I think we will be able to talk about it in a very complete manner next week, in particular with regard to the data according to which we think that representatives of China are engaged in the production of certain weapons on Russian territory”he said.
China has always publicly maintained its neutrality in the Ukrainian conflict, but Beijing has provided Diplomatic and Economic Support to Russia since the start of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The Ukrainian president recalled that during his conversation with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the latter had given him his word that he would not sell or send weapons to Russia.
“Unfortunately, the information we have today is different. We already have facts on the work of China and Russia to strengthen their defense capacities, and it is in bad facts,” said Mr. Zelensky.
Witkoff “adopted the strategy of the Russian party”
Zelensky also pointed out that Ukraine would never recognize the territories temporarily occupied as Russians, and that this position has not changed.
“I think Steve Witkoff has adopted the strategy of the Russian part. I think it is very dangerous, because it – consciously or unconsciously, I do not know – diffuses Russian narratives,” he added.
According to the head of state, Trump’s envoy does not have a mandate to “discuss the Ukrainian territories” which belong to the Ukrainian people. And, indeed, Steve Witkoff is a special envoy of the United States in the Middle East, but he completely overshadowed the “real” sent for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, apparently perceived in the White House as “too listening” to the Ukrainian position.
Recently, Witkoff said on Fox News that the peace agreement would include a regulation of “five territories”, without specifying what it was talking about exactly.
Previously, during a very publicized interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff had declared that “the biggest problem in this conflict is the so-called four regions”, but when he began to list them, he counted five: “Donbass, Crimea, Louhansk and two others”.
