Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China,

Kyiv time on July 4, there were 136 combat engagements on the frontline. The highest number of battles was recorded in the Pokrovsk direction, according to a report by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

China cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine, Beijing’s foreign minister has said, in unguarded comments to European officials.