Ukraine has condemned what it called 'absurd' comments from China's ambassador to France, who questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet countries.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky poses as he arrives for a summit at EU parliament in Brussels. Ukraine's president is set to attend an EU summit in Brussels as the guest of honour where he will press allies to deliver fighter jets in the war against Russia.Ukraine condemned comments from China's ambassador to France, who questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet countries.
The comments cast doubt not just on Ukraine, which Russia invaded last February, but all former Soviet republics which emerged as independent nations after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including many members of the European Union. Moscow and Beijing have over the past years ramped up cooperation, and Washington has accused Beijing of mulling arms exports to Moscow - claims China denied.
"Remarks by the Chinese Ambassador in France concerning international law and sovereignty of nations are completely unacceptable," Latvia's foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics wrote on Twitter.'Don't trust China'
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