House Select Committee Investigates Reports of Chinese Mercenaries in Ukraine

A congressional committee is investigating reports that more than a hundred Chinese nationals are serving as mercenaries for the Russian military in Ukraine. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has requested information from the State Department about the Ukrainian government’s claims that Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia in the occupied Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last month that Kyiv had collected detailed intelligence on at least 150 Chinese mercenaries, he said, who were recruited by Moscow via social media. The claim was made shortly after Zelenskyy announced that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian army on Ukrainian soil....