President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort.
Beijing is a close diplomatic ally of Moscow but is not publicly known to have directly aided in the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion, which US President Trump is seeking to swiftly end. Writing on X, where he posted a video of one of the alleged men, Zelenskyy said Kyiv has “information suggesting that there are many more Chinese” fighting.
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