Chinese Foreign Ministry Head Qin Gang said that the Chinese side did not fuel the fire of conflict in Ukraine, but advocated justice, negotiations and pacifying the situation. Qin Gang said this in his speech at the opening of the Lanting Forum in Shanghai. TASS.
“The People’s Republic of China is not fueling the fire or seizing the opportunity to profit, but promotes justice, promotes peace, advances negotiations to ‘defuse’ the crisis and ‘cool down’ the situation,” he said.
He added that the facts prove that the PRC’s modernization movement is “the growth of the power of peace and justice.”
Earlier, Liu Xiaoming, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Korean Peninsula Affairs, said that the PRC had never did not supply weapons are neither Russia nor Ukraine.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.