Beijing rejects ‘false’ US claims that Russia sought Chinese military aid for Ukraine op

Beijing has blasted Washington’s recent allegations as disinformation that Russia sought military assistance from China to conduct its special operation in Ukraine, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a briefing on Monday.

It will be recalled the popular news reports going across west-oriented media that Russia was seeking military assistance from China, although some discussants laughed over the reports as they easily pulled it down, saying it is not a big deal that nations would seek support from other nations in time of needs talk less, according to them, that Russia has all it takes to prosecute the war in Ukraine.

A United States official had on Monday claimed that Russia had asked China for military equipment to use in its “invasion” of Ukraine, a request that heightened tensions about the ongoing war before a meeting between senior US and Chinese officials in Rome.

In advance of the talks on Monday, White House NSA Jake Sullivan bluntly warned China to avoid helping Russia evade punishment from global sanctions that he believed had hammered the Russian economy..

China, which has never pretended in its firm standing with Russia over what it described as war of necessity in Ukraine, neutralised the United States’ “false information” on Monday saying Russia did not seek it for any military assistance.

“The allegations on the matter disseminated by the US are false information,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson specifically said.

According to him, lately Washington has been deliberately circulating misinformation about China regarding the developments in Ukraine.

Zhao Lijian also noted that China’s stance on Ukraine is coherent and clear. As the spokesperson pointed out, Beijing has always played a constructive role in the process of establishing peace and advancing negotiations.

“Currently, it is essential that all sides exercise restraint, contribute to defusing the situation, and not add fuel to the fire, (but rather) promote a diplomatic settlement of the issue and not its escalation,” Zhao Lijian concluded.

In the meantime, Russia has said that its military operations in Ukraine is going as planned and that in short time to come, it will complete the mission and fully too.

TASS and the Agencies