News Week
China has expressed regret over the loss of civilian lives in Ukraine for the first time, on the sixth day of a Russian military campaign that Beijing still refuses to call an invasion.
When Russian forces began bombarding Ukrainian territory on February 24, China’s Foreign Ministry bridled at suggestions that there already had been non-military casualties in the conflict. Its tone softened on Tuesday, after the Ukrainian government counted at least 352 civilian deaths, among them 14 children…
