Ukraine war
Ukraine calls on China to condemn 'Russian barbarism'
Kyiv/IBNS: Ukraine has urged China to join the West in condemning the "Russian barbarism" after the United States warned Beijing of consequences if it backed Moscow's attack on Kyiv, reports said.
Moscow claimed it had struck a Ukrainian arms depot with hypersonic missiles in what is thought to be the first such use in combat of the next-generation weapons.
Dozens of soldiers were killed after Russian troops struck a Ukrainian military barrack in the southern city of Mykolaiv.
Ukraine is all set to receive a new shipment of US weapons within days, including Javelin and Stinger missiles, reports said.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a "very serious issue which is shaking the roots of international order", Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday while visiting India.
Earlier, Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday called US president Joe Biden and said war is "in no one's interest" amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine which has resulted in a huge global crisis.
According to reports, the US president had aimed to pressurise Beijing into joining Western condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
State broadcaster CCTV reported Xi Jinping as saying during the call that "state-to-state relations cannot go to the stage of military hostilities."
China and the United States should "shoulder international responsibilities," Xi Jinping was quoted as saying.
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