Has China joined the side of Russia? What showed the capturing of Chinese troops in Ukraine
9. Apr 2025 at 18:17
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Beijing must be careful, says the expert.
Kiev, BRATISLAVA. The Ukrainian armed forces in the Donetsk Fighting Called two Chinese citizens fighting on the party Russia. Tuesday announced this Ukrainian President Volodymyr Želenskyj With a note that Kiev has « information that there are many more than two Chinese citizens in the occupiers’ units ».
Greeding talked about the presence of at least six Chinese troops, the website wrote Kyiv Independent. Ukrainian diplomacy immediately asked Beijing to explain, Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiha summoned Chinese Chargé d’Ffaires.
« The presence of Chinese citizens in the Russian invasive army questions the declared peace attitude of China and undermines the credibility of Beijing as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, » Sibyha wrote on the network X.
On Wednesday, China has already responded that Ukrainian statements that « many » Chinese are fighting on the Russian side are unsubstantiated. « The Chinese government always asks its citizens to avoid conflict areas and not to engage in armed conflicts in any way, » he said according to the newspaper Kyiv posT Lin Jien, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
« They were volunteers. This is not the first case to capture volunteers or mercenaries from other countries, » said Hlib Fischenko, head of the Ukrainian European Security Research Institute. Reminded that, although China formally into the Russian war against Ukraine It does not engage, in the background it is a significant economic supporter of Russia.
In the article you can read:
- What we know about the work of Chinese troops in Ukraine,
- As China approaches armed conflicts elsewhere,
- What is the experience of Ukraine so far with the presence of foreign fighters on the Russian side.
Paid thousands of citizenship
Both Chinese have the status of prisoners of war and Kyiv Independent Meanwhile, he reported that one of them testified how he paid three hundred thousand rubles (about € 3150) to the intermediary in China for the opportunity to obtain Russian citizenship if he entered the Russian army.
« This is not the first case of captivity of soldiers, volunteers or mercenaries from other countries, » comments Fischenko. It recalls that they have already captured the people of Nepal, India, but also from African countries in Ukraine. « It is almost the standard, but it is, unfortunately, the problem, because Russia is using all the means to recruit for global south. Those people normally lie there that they are going to make money in Russia, but they go to war, » he says.
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