China says most of its citizens evacuated from Ukraine | The Straits Times

BEIJING (AFP) – Beijing’s embassy in Ukraine announced on Monday (March 7) that most of the approximately 6,000 Chinese nationals previously in the country had been evacuated, as Russia stepped up the shelling of multiple cities. In the weeks leading up to the conflict, Chinese state media dismissed US warnings of an imminent Russian invasion. Unlike many Western nations, Beijing waited until after war broke out on Feb 24 to tell its citizens to evacuate. “At present, most Chinese compatriots in Ukraine have already been evacuated,” the embassy said in a social media statement. “At present, the tense situation in…