'It is important that the United States and China jointly highlighted that the threats of using nuclear weapons were unacceptable,' Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says.
KHERSON, Ukraine – Kyiv welcomed reported Chinese comments criticizing threats to use nuclear weapons as world leaders gathered in Indonesia to take part inUS President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping “underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” the White House said in a readout of a meeting in Indonesia between the two leaders on the eve of the summit.
Xi and Putin have grown close in recent years, bound by their shared distrust of the West, and China has refrained from publicly criticizing Russia for the invasion or from calling on it to withdraw its troops.since the invasion began in February, welcomed Monday’s remarks. Kherson city had been the only regional capital captured by Russia since the invasion and Putin had proclaimed it “eternally Russian” six weeks ago.“Ukrainian servicemen accept no talks, no agreements or compromise decisions,” Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny wrote on Telegram late on Monday after a telephone conversation with the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine had gathered evidence of at least 400 war crimes committed by Russian troops during their occupation of the area, including killings and abductions. Reuters reported one account of a neighbor shot dead and three accounts of people carried off by troops in the village of Blahodatne north of Kherson.The United Nations General Assembly on Monday voted to approve a resolution recognizing that Russia must be responsible for making reparations to Ukraine, in a non-binding move backed by 94 of its 193 members.
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