FT: EU pushing Chinese president to speak to Ukrainian counterpart

The EU was pushing Chinese President Xi Jinping to speak to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy as well as Putin.

“What we think is positive is that China is at least engaging. But I think what we are pressing and we have insisted a lot is that they do it both ways, with Russia but also Ukraine,” said an EU official, according to Financial Times.

Xi paid a state visit to Russia earlier this week. It was his ninth since 2013 when he was first elected president.

The Chinese president stressed in talks with Putin that "voices for peace and rationality" on the Ukraine issue "are building."

Putin replied: "Russia is open to talks for peace."