Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit China on July 23-25 at the invitation of the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Wang Yi.
U.S. Ambassador to Beijing Nicholas Burns has said that China is not a neutral country, it has “effectively sided” with Russia in the war against Ukraine.
China will not attend a Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland next month because it does not meet its expectations, which include both Russia and Ukraine taking part.
The European Union expects China to use its influence on Russia to force it to stop its aggression against Ukraine and stop its irresponsible nuclear rhetoric.
China rejects accusations of supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, insists on the legality of trade with Russia and claims that the country's government ensures effective control over the export of military and dual-use goods.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference that China does not sell lethal weapons to Russia for its war against Ukraine.
During the 24th EU-China summit in Beijing, the European Union strongly encouraged China to engage on the Ukrainian Peace Formula and insisted that China should refrain from supplying lethal weapons to Russia.
Sanctioned Russian companies involved in the production of missile launchers, armored vehicles and strategic bombers have received tens of thousands of components from China since the outset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The meeting on peace in Ukraine, which took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, concluded without a final declaration, however, with "cautiously positive signals from China."