As Chinese President Xi Jinping headed to the U.S. for a highly anticipated meeting with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his U.N. General Assembly speech on Wednesday to publicly urge Beijing to help bring Russia's war to an end. "He is someone who can influence Russia more than many others can," Zelensky said of Xi, adding that Ukraine hopes the Chinese leader "want[s] peace as much as we do." The remarks underscored Kyiv's view that China remains one of the few major powers capable of exerting meaningful pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin after nearly five years of war.
Zelenskyy, who held talks with Trump on Tuesday during the U.N. gathering, spent a significant portion of his speech urging countries to tighten sanctions and curb Russia's capacity to finance the war. When someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia’s revenues ourselves,” he said.
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