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World News See other World News Articles Title: Trump Admin Responds to Ukraine's Capture of Chinese Troops Trump Admin Responds to Ukraine's Capture of Chinese Troops Story by Shane Croucher • 9 April 2025 The State Department said it was disturbed by reports of the capture of two "Chinese nationals" fighting on the side of Russian forces inside Ukraine, calling Beijing a "major enabler" of Moscow's war against its neighbor. Why It Matters Beijing has denied it is supporting Moscow's war effort against its neighbor. NATO has called China, which inked a "no limits" partnership with Russia in the run-up to the invasion more than three years ago, a "decisive enabler" of the Kremlin's war. China has kept up strong trade ties with Russia, including with "dual- use" items that are not strictly military but can be used to build defense equipment or weapons. Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee and a member of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's party, told Newsweek on Tuesday that Beijing had, so far, "tried not to cross the red lines," but the alleged discovery of Chinese nationals in frontline clashes "comes very close to complicity of China in Russian aggression against Ukraine." "That's why it's so dangerous," Merezkho said. A screengrab from a video published by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said on Tuesday that Ukraine had captured two Chinese nationals in the eastern Donetsk region as prisoners of war. Volodymyr Zelensky/ X © Volodymyr Zelensky/ X What To Know Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Tuesday two Chinese citizens in Ukraine's bitterly contested eastern Donetsk region had been captured, and said Kyiv was seeking answers from Beijing. Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said he had summoned China's chargé d'affaires in Ukraine "to condemn this fact and demand an explanation." Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had engaged in fighting with six Chinese citizens around the Donetsk villages of Tarasivka and Bilohorivka, taking two as prisoners of war. The alleged Chinese citizens were carrying identification and "even their credit cards," the Ukrainian leader said. The prisoners of war are being held by Ukraine's SBU security service, Zelensky said, adding Ukrainian intelligence believed there are "many more Chinese citizens" in Russian units. It is not clear how the Chinese citizens came to be in Ukraine, and to what extent the Chinese government was aware of their alleged presence in the war-torn country. China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was "verifying the information with the Ukrainian side." "Let me stress that the Chinese government always asks Chinese nationals to stay away from areas of armed conflict, avoid any form of involvement in armed conflict, and in particular avoid participation in any party's military operations," foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told the media in Beijing. Andriy Kovalenko, an official with Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, called the Chinese nationals "mercenaries," but did not provide any further explanation or evidence. Both sides have attracted foreign fighters into their ranks, labeled as "mercenaries" by the opposing forces. "It's disturbing. It's disturbing with North Korea participating. It's disturbing with the Chinese soldiers having been captured," U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters on Tuesday. "China is a major enabler of Russia in the war in Ukraine," Bruce said. "China provides nearly 80 percent of the dual-use items Russia needs to sustain the war." A spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said in July that Beijing "does not provide weapons to the parties to the conflict and strictly controls the export of dual-use articles, which is widely applauded by the international community." North Korea is the only country known to have committed combat troops to the more than three years of war, fighting alongside Russian forces in the western Russian Kursk region. Ukraine launched a blitz attack across the border into Kursk in August 2024, and Russia struggled to prize Kyiv's grip from the territory for months. Russia in recent weeks has almost entirely regained control of the Ukrainian-held chunk of Kursk, depriving Ukraine of a bargaining chip in ongoing ceasefire negotiations with the U.S. "But there is a difference: North Koreans fought against us in the Kursk direction, while the Chinese are fighting on Ukrainian territory," Zelensky said. "I think this is an important issue that we need to discuss with our partners." What People Are Saying Poster Comment: Video at source. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 6.
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Segmenting this article into "Why it Matters", "What to Know" & "What People are Saying" to me are trademarks of an AI generated news report. As for the report itself, it sure is hypocritical to call Chinese mercenary involvement a big escalation of whatever type when Ukraine having NATO troops in its ranks is no problem at all.
Hmmm. Never thought about that before.
I've been fiddling with AI a lot lately just for coding work and am starting to pick up on the nuances.
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