Zelensky -- whose war leadership has hit turbulence with Donald Trump in the White House -- also said that Kyiv was ready to buy up to $50 billion of US military equipment.
Kyiv had details of more than 150 Chinese nationals who had been deployed to the front, Zelensky said, a day after claiming Ukraine’s army had captured two Chinese citizens fighting in the eastern Donetsk region.
“This is the second mistake for Russia. The first was North Korea. They drag other countries into war. I believe that they are now dragging China into this war,“ Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv.
“The ‘Chinese’ issue is serious. There are 155 people with names and passport details who are fighting against Ukrainians on the territory of Ukraine,“ Zelensky told journalists in Kyiv.
Zelensky said he believed there were “many more” and that further information was being gathered.
“It is clear how they recruit them. One of the schemes is through social media, in particular TikTok and other Chinese social networks, where Russians distribute commercials,“ Zelensky said.
‘Absolutely groundless’
In the video the prisoner mimicked combat sounds and uttered several words in Mandarin. The Ukrainian army said Chinese ID cards and contracts for Russian military service had been found on them.
“The Chinese government has always asked its citizens to stay away from areas of armed conflict (and) avoid involvement in armed conflicts in any form,“ he said.
Asked about Zelensky’s claims in a daily press briefing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment.
China presents itself as a neutral party in the three-year war and says it is not sending lethal assistance to either side, unlike the United States and other Western nations.
“The Chinese side’s position on the issue of the Ukraine crisis is clear and unequivocal, and has won widespread approval from the international community,“ Lin said.
‘Unacceptable’
“The United States of America is very much surprised and believes that this is unacceptable. These are the signals they have sent us,“ he told reporters.
“We are ready to find 30 billion or 50 billion (dollars)” for US military equipment, he said.
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