Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in response to a media question that she had no information about the preparation of a telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Mao Ning could only note that the two countries have always kept in touch and exchanged views on issues that are important to both of them, Kommersant reported.
Prior to that, Bloomberg news agency quoted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as saying that Kiev wants to hold a phone conversation between Vladimir Zelensky and Xi Jinping. Kuleba noted that the parties have issues that they can talk through. At the same time, China did not organize a face-to-face meeting of the two leaders.