{"id":71172,"date":"2025-04-18T23:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/18\/china-dismisses-zelenskyy-claim-supply-weapons-russia"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:13:04","slug":"china-dismisses-zelenskyys-claim-it-has-supplied-weapons-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71172","title":{"rendered":"China dismisses Zelenskyy\u2019s claim it has supplied weapons to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing rejects Ukrainian president\u2019s accusation as \u2018groundless\u2019 and says it is committed to ending the conflict<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/18\/russia-ukraine-war-peace-talks-us-marco-rubio-zelenskyy-trump\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign ministry has dismissed as \u201cgroundless\u201d the accusation by Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the country had been supplying weapons to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The comments, made at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday, came a day after the Ukrainian president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/18\/ukraine-war-briefing-china-arming-russia-and-building-weapons-on-its-soil-says-zelenskyy\">said China was supplying weapons to Russia<\/a>, including gunpowder and artillery, and that Chinese representatives were involved in weapons production on Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/18\/china-dismisses-zelenskyy-claim-supply-weapons-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing rejects Ukrainian president\u2019s accusation as \u2018groundless\u2019 and says it is committed to ending the conflictRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesChina\u2019s foreign ministry has dismissed as \u201cgroundless\u201d the accusation by Volodymyr Zelenskyy that th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/71172","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71173,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71172\/revisions\/71173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}