China calls US ‘main instigator’ in Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Asher Notheis

Published August 10, 2022 10:38pm ET

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China calls US ‘main instigator’ in Russia’s war in Ukraine — China's Ambassador to Russia, Zhang Hanhui, centre, poses after presenting his diplomatic credentials with Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a ceremony to receive credentials from newly appointed foreign ambassadors to Russia in Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Zhang called the United States "the initiator and main instigator of the Ukrainian crisis" in an interview released Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (Aleksey Nikolskyi, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China called the United States the “main instigator” of the nearly six-month war between Russia and Ukraine.

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