If Chinese soldiers are fighting in the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, that is not the big story. The big story is the effect the claim could have on the possibility of peace.
Ukraine has not yet even proven the months old claim of the presence of North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia on Russian soil. Now they are making the much more provocative claim that Chinese soldiers are fighting for Russia on Ukrainian soil.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on April 9 that the Ukrainian armed forces had captured two Chinese soldiers fighting in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. He then said that Ukrainian intelligence has uncovered 155 Chinese citizens who are “fighting against Ukrainians on the territory of Ukraine” and that they “believe that there are many more of them.”
I am willing to say, “So what?” NATO OTAN has admitted to having British, French and Polish soldiers there at the state’s behest and order. Ukraine has yet to make any proof available for saying that the North Koreans and the Chinese are fighting with the Russians. We already know that there are other countries with close relations to Russia whose people are participating, perhaps not at the behest of their government. So, again, I ask, “So what?”