Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged "maximum restraint" over Ukraine, calling the crisis "deeply worrying" in a video summit with his French and German counterparts Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz.
According to a brief press release from the Elysée, Macron, Scholz and Xi, who talked via a three-way video screen, discussed "the dramatic consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine, in particular the growing number of civilian victims and refugees."