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Why Ukraine is dragging China-Pakistan into the conflict?

Simon Westwood, August 25, 2025

The Pakistan-Russia relations are significantly improving after decades, and Zelensky wants to sabotage the cooperation.

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Introduction

On August 5, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a completely incorrect and inaccurate statement about the role of mercenaries from Pakistan, China and other neutral countries allegedly fighting on the side of Russia in the SVO in Ukraine.

Zelensky said that “Our warriors in this sector are reporting the participation of mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries in the war. We will respond.” The foreign ministries of China and Pakistan have denied such stupid claims made by Zelensky. Pakistan said that “The Government of Pakistan will take up the matter with Ukrainian authorities and seek clarification.”

It is an eye-opening and perhaps quite dangerous trend that Zelensky has made such a statement that has no evidence at all

The main objective behind making this statement is clear that Ukraine and its masters are fearful of the growing connectivity projects between Moscow and Islamabad and are trying to demagnetize Russia and Pakistan. Similarly, Russia and China maintain historic relations, and contemporarily they are the real symbols of the multi-polar world. Likewise, countries like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and China are collectively members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that is tirelessly working for regional connectivity and development.

Similarly, being the driving force of a multipolar world, Russia is actively supporting independent and sovereign governments in Burkina Faso, Mali, Central African Republic, Sudan, Niger, and Libya. Russia fully supports the sovereign rights of these nations to pursue their respective national policies and interests, while remaining well within the framework of international law.

Pakistan-Ukraine Defence Relations

It is to be remembered here that Pakistan and Ukraine maintained good relations and Pakistan bought hundreds of T-80UD main battle tanks from Ukraine in the past. Also, as a responsible member of the international community, Pakistan had significant diplomatic staff in Kyiv. However, with such a shameful statement, the Pakistan-Ukraine bilateral relations could significantly degrade, and I think that Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs should issue a demarche to the Ambassador and Embassy of Ukraine in Pakistan.

Why Ukraine is losing territory?

It is a fact that Ukraine is militarily too weak and it is no match for the Russian armed forces. Just look at the recent Russian military victories at Pokrovsk, in which the Ukrainians were badly beaten by the Russians. Since the beginning of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces are being provided all kinds of Western military assistance including real-time intelligence. It is also a fact that besides Western mercenaries, the north Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military advisors and troops are also positioned in Ukraine to fight the Russian armed forces.

It is important to note that Russian armed forces are intelligently using reconnaissance aerial drones to guide their artillery, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles especially the tactical Iskander-M ballistic missiles to hit and destroy Ukrainian strategic assets. On the other hand, Ukraine, despite all the Western military assistance, is still unable to wage effective resistance.

Why Ukraine is dragging Pakistan-China and other neutral countries into conflict?

The former US President Harry S. Truman once argued that “if you cannot convince them, confuse them.” The Ukrainian President Zelensky is actually doing the same. The members of the free world community know it quite well that Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine is a matter of Russia’s national security and political integrity. Russia has a huge territory which is full of natural resources and it does not want Ukrainian territory for any reason.

Ukraine has miserably failed in defending its territory and at the same time it has also failed to gather support against Russia. However, quite the contrary of Ukraine’s expectations, now even the European nations has started questioning the very rationale behind supporting Ukraine, while compromising the economy and living standards of their own nation.

To overcome its international embarrassment and divert the international attention from Ukrainian battlefield defeats, President Zelensky has made this rubbish statement.

It is an eye-opening and perhaps quite dangerous trend that Zelensky has made such a statement that has no evidence at all. Such a statement is intended to be used as a smokescreen and to put all the blame of Ukrainian battlefield losses on neutral countries.

Conclusions

It is clear that with the clown-president Zelensky, the future of Ukraine is completely doomed forever. It is a known fact that Zelensky’s hands are ridden with the blood of innocent Russian people and he is a war criminal that must be removed from power.

With such baseless statements, President Zelensky is cementing our belief that President Putin was absolutely right to launch the Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022, and that this operation must continue with full military force until Russia’s complete victory. Furthermore, the removal of the Kyiv puppet regime is the only viable solution for sustainable peace in the region, especially Europe and Eurasia.

The foreign ministries of China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries, should issue a diplomatic demarche to the Ukrainian embassies in their respective countries and condemn such an irresponsible statement from Zelensky.

 

Simon Westwood – is a Masters student at the Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He is also a Research Assistant at the DCU’s Department of History

 
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