- Top US diplomat Blinken warned China could arm Russia in its on-going invasion
- Biden made surprise visit to Kyiv today ahead of Putin’s meeting with Wang Yi
If China sides with Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, World War Three will have begun, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.
Beijing denied claims it is considering giving ‘lethal aid’ to Russia, after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday warned top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi of consequences should his country wade in to the on-going conflict.
Blinken said in an interview after the two met that Washington was concerned Beijing was considering supplying weapons to Moscow, ahead of a planned meeting between Yi and the Russian president on Monday.
‘For us, it is important that China does not support the Russian Federation in this war,’ Zelensky told German daily Die Welt. ‘In fact, I would like it to be on our side. At the moment, however, I don’t think it’s possible.’
‘But I do see an opportunity for China to make a pragmatic assessment of what is happening here,’ he added. ‘Because if China allies itself with Russia, there will be a world war, and I do think that China is aware of that.’
Zelensky also told Die Welt that Ukraine had passed on to Moldovan President Maia Sandu intelligence suggesting that Russia was plotting a coup in Moldova.
‘Maia Sandu never asked me for help, but she thanked me for the information. She knows our situation. Ukraine will always be ready to help Moldova,’ he added.
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia’s relations with Moldova were very tense and it accused Moldovan leaders of pursuing an anti-Russian agenda, one week after Chisinau said it had foiled a Russian coup attempt.
Zelensky’s World War Three warning came on the day US president Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine organised in strict secrecy.
In the meantime….
China successfully tests ‘phantom space strike’ weapon which can overwhelm an enemy’s missile defence systems ahead of a nuclear attack
- Tactic could exhaust an enemy’s weapon supplies, making it easier to destroy it
- Engineers said they a computer simulation came back with positive results
China has successfully tested a ‘phantom space strike’ – a new tactic to overwhelm and sabotage missile defences by emitting fake target signals from space.
Military engineers announced earlier this month they had completed a computer simulation and achieved positive results.
The tactic is designed to overwhelm the enemy on the basis that there is only so much a missile defence system would be able to cope with.
This can lead to exhaustion of the enemy’s weapon supplies, making it easier to destroy it.
In the simulation, a ballistic missile was launched against an enemy which had a missile defence system.
