Poland calls on China to help counter Russia’s war against Ukraine

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has called on China to step up diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

He said those words during a speech in the Polish Sejm on the country’s foreign policy objectives for 2025, Bloomberg reported.

Sikorski said that the goal of Kyiv’s allies is to achieve a just and lasting peace and called on China to step up diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

“We believe that China could add new value to the world order if—and it has the means to do so—it puts an end to Vladimir Putin’s colonial war in Ukraine,” the Polish foreign minister said.

“Poland continues to exert pressure on Russia to cease its aggression as soon as possible,” Sikorski told Polish MPs. “Our goal should not be a fragile ceasefire, but a lasting and just peace in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter,” Sikorski stated.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently announced that the Ukrainian military in the Donetsk region had captured two Chinese citizens who had fought in the Russian army.

Commenting on this report, EU Chief Diplomat Kaja Kallas called China the “main sponsor” of Russia’s war. She stated this at a press conference following the EU-Ukraine Association Council meeting in Brussels on 9 April.

“It is clear that China is the key enabler of Russia’s war. Without Chinese support, Russia wouldn’t be able to wage the war in the amount that they are waging this,” Kaja Kallas said.

A recent research by KSEI concluded that China keeps Russia’s military economy running. Chinese companies have secured for Russia all military imports — from thermal imagers and sights to protected radios and CNC machines. China’s share of these supplies in 2023 reached 90%, a study by the Kyiv School of Economics Institute has found out.

Due to the US and EU sanctions against Russia, the Kremlin is increasingly replacing American components of its weapons with those of other countries, including China. First, Indian-made components were detected. Ukrainian intelligence has analyzed six types of weapons used by the Russian army in the war against Ukraine and found about 200 new components in them, UATV reported.

“Among them are the CRP antenna of the Russian Shahed, the North Korean KN-24 ballistic missile, the computer from the X-47 Kinzhal missile, as well as Supercam S350, Gerbera, and Zala drones. Only two American-made chips were found in the new CRP antennas for the Geranium-2 drone. This indicates Russia’s attempts to reduce its dependence on components from countries that have imposed sanctions against it,” the Ukrainian intelligence service said.

The European Union expressed serious concerns about the information that China is supplying Russia with components for the production of attack drones that the Kremlin is using on the battlefield against Ukraine. This was announced at a briefing in Brussels on February 27 by EU Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Anouar El-Anouni.

The EU representative emphasized that companies from China supply Russia with components for attack drones and, in some cases, even assembled attack drones.