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00:00Kiev says these two Chinese nationals were fighting with Russia in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
00:07I mean, what more do we know about these people? What do you think they were doing there?
00:11Tom, good afternoon. It's a pleasure to join you.
00:14We don't actually know an awful lot more.
00:16Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told us, obviously, that they have captured two Chinese nationals.
00:22The Ukrainian government believes there are many more fighting,
00:25and I believe they have instigated an investigation by their security services.
00:33Now, obviously, there has been no comment from Beijing as yet.
00:37Two things I would say.
00:39One, our intelligence services, and when I say our intelligence services,
00:43certainly the British and the Americans and others have been telling us for over a year
00:48that China, along with North Korea and Iran,
00:52has been supplying lethal aid to Russia to use in Ukraine.
00:58So I don't think it would be a surprise if these nationals were there
01:05under the official auspices of the Chinese government.
01:08But we simply don't know yet.