KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian government has invited Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit Ukraine and Beijing indicated it was “interested” in the proposal, a spokesman for Kyiv’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with his Chinese counterpart last week during his first wartime visit to China, where the two spoke for more than three hours.
“We are ready to welcome Minister Wang Yi in Ukraine to see first-hand the consequences of the Russian aggression against our country and hold deeper bilateral talks with him on a number of bilateral, regional and international issues,” foreign ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi told a briefing in Kyiv.
China positions itself as neutral on the war, but declared a “no limits” partnership with Russia days before Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and hosted President Vladimir Putin for talks in May.
(Reporting by Dan Peleschuk; editing by Alex Richardson and Deepa Babington)
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