Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council Tuesday that China could pressure Russia to end the war in his country, following a US call for Beijing to stop buying Moscow's oil.

China is not a party to the conflict, but Kyiv has long complained that Beijing has supplied items to Moscow that can be used in its war against Ukraine, and continues to purchase Russian energy.

"China is also represented here, a powerful nation on which Russia now depends completely," Zelensky told the council, of which China is a permanent member.

"If China truly wanted this war to stop, it could compel Moscow to end the invasion. Without China, Putin's Russia is nothing.

"Yet too often China stays silent and distant instead of active for peace."

Beijing strongly denies that it suppli

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