Zelenskiy Says Xi Sent Independence Day Greetings to Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Chinese leader Xi Jinping sent him a note of congratulation on the 34th anniversary of the country’s independence, days before Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit China.

Zelenskiy shared the message that he said came from Xi on Sunday on the social media platform X. The note would mark their first known communication in more than two years and the first public record of Xi sending well wishes to the country to mark its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.