{"id":70860,"date":"2025-04-08T23:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/two-chinese-nationals-caught-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine-zelenskyy-says"},"modified":"2025-04-08T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:45:45","slug":"two-chinese-nationals-caught-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine-zelenskyy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70860","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese nationals caught fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president says men\u2019s capture shows Moscow is trying to involve Beijing in the war \u2018directly or indirectly\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese nationals fighting with the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president said they were two of many more Chinese members of the Russian armed forces, and he accused the Kremlin of trying to involve Beijing in the conflict \u201cdirectly or indirectly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/two-chinese-nationals-caught-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine-zelenskyy-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president says men\u2019s capture shows Moscow is trying to involve Beijing in the war \u2018directly or indirectly\u2019Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese nationals fighting with the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region, according to Volodymy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860\/revisions\/70861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}