Ukraine-Russia struggle newest: Zelensky releases new video of captured Chinese troopers and says Beijing turning blind eye | EUROtoday

A brand new video shared by Volodymyr Zelensky exhibits a part of the interrogation of the 2 captured Chinese troopers, after Beijing referred to as his claims about them “baseless”.

In the video the troopers reveal particulars of their expertise preventing in Ukraine alongside Russia, and certainly one of their Chinese passports can be proven to the digital camera.

The soldier whose passport is proven stated that this struggle was his first deployment and he had by no means held a weapon earlier than.

Another soldier, who recognized himself as Wang Guangjun, stated that when he surrended within the preventing, the Russian troopers “dropped some kind of gas on them”.

“He was in the shelter, inhaling the gas. He thought he was going to die but a Ukrainian serviceman rushed in and dragged him out by the scruff, and after that he lost consciousness,” a translator interrogating him stated.

Ukrainian intelligence has data there are about 155 Chinese residents preventing for the Russian navy towards Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated.

Mr Zelensky claimed that Russia was recruiting Chinese residents by way of social media and that Chinese officers had been conscious of that.

He added that Ukraine was making an attempt to evaluate whether or not the recruits had been receiving directions from Beijing.

A spokesperson for China’s overseas ministry stated earlier China was verifying the state of affairs with Ukraine, including that its authorities had all the time required its residents to keep away from areas of armed battle and “especially to avoid participating in the military operations of any party”.