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Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's presidential administration,
wrote on Telegram that he and his team presented the situation
on the battlefield and Kyiv's peace proposals to Li Hui, China's
special representative for Eurasian affairs.
Yermak said the Ukrainian side "discussed with Li Hui the
prospects for establishing a just peace for Ukraine, the
restoration of our country's territorial integrity and
sovereignty on the basis of the Ukrainian peace formula".
Ukraine's peace plan, as presented by President Volodymyr
Zelenskiy, calls for removing all Russian troops, restoring
Ukraine's 1991 post-Soviet borders and a process to make Russia
accountable for its actions.
In a statement on Friday, the Chinese foreign ministry said Li
"held frank and friendly talks" with Yermak, Ukraine's first
deputy prime minister and foreign minister on both countries'
ties and the Ukraine crisis, but gave no details.
Switzerland has pledged to stage a peace summit and several
preparatory meetings have already taken place. Kyiv has been
trying to cultivate good relations with Beijing, and China has
attended at least one of the meetings, though Russia has not
been invited.
Li, making his second trip to Europe, met a Russian deputy
foreign minister in Moscow last week and said it was impossible
to discuss a Ukraine settlement without Moscow's participation.
In his account of Thursday's talks, Yermak said they showed the
Chinese delegation examples of fragments of downed missiles and
weapons that North Korea made and gave to Russia to attack
Ukraine.
Last month, Ukraine's prosecutor general said experts had found
that Russia had fired at least 24 North Korean-made missiles
over a period of several weeks.
Yermak's account of the meeting also said Ukraine raised what it
described as Russian violations of international conventions on
prisoners of war and how China might help secure the return of
deported Ukrainian children.
Russia denies such deportations have taken place, saying
children were removed from the war zone for their own safety.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Additional
reporting by Liz Lee in Beijing; Editing by Josie Kao and
Clarence Fernandez)
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