World News: US warns China not to help Russia – Gulf Digital News

World News: US warns China not to help Russia – Gulf Digital News

LVIV: The US has warned China not to help Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Moscow allowed the first convoy to escape besieged Mariupol, home to the worst humanitarian crisis of the conflict.

Since the first week of the invasion, the biggest attack on a European state since the Second World War, the southeastern port has been surrounded by troops, leaving hundreds of thousands of people to shelter without food or water.

Russia has yet to capture any of the 10 biggest cities in Ukraine since the start of the February 24 attack, which the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” its neighbour.

Russia has asked for military and economic aid from Beijing, according to US officials.

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Moscow denies that, saying it has sufficient military resources to fulfil all of its aims. China’s foreign ministry labelled the reports on assistance as “disinformation.”

China had signalled willingness to provide aid to Russia, a US official said as national security adviser Jake Sullivan met China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome.

“We have communicated very clearly to Beijing that we won’t stand by,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said yesterday. “We will not allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses.”

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