The subtle signs that Ukraine is willing to engage diplomatically with Russia continue to increase. This week, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, traveled to China for the first time since Russia’s 2022 invasion to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
“I am convinced that a just peace in Ukraine is in China’s strategic interests, and China’s role as a global force for peace is important,” Kuleba said during the meeting.
Following the meeting, the Ukrainian foreign ministry put out a statement saying that Kyiv was “ready to engage” with Russia if Moscow was prepared to do so “in good faith,” but that so far they had seen no indication that Russia was ready to do so. […]
When China released its own peace plan in February 2023, Ukraine’s reaction was cautiously optimistic, and more welcoming than the United States or Western partners were of the plan. Ukraine’s urgency to engage with China as a potential mediator has perhaps increased due to uncertainty over whether the U.S. and the West are really in it for the long term. Läs artikel