Ukraine crisis: no Chinese students killed in Kharkiv clashes, state-run newspaper reports
- Global Times counters Ukrainian news site claim that 4 Chinese nationals among 13 killed at a dormitory in the country’s second-biggest city
- China under pressure to address the safety of its nationals in the conflict, analyst says
The Ukrainian news site Obozrevatel, or Observer, had reported earlier that 13 students died after Russian troops fired at a dormitory at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. Four of the students were from China and one was from India, the report said.
The report could not be independently verified and the Chinese embassy in Kyiv did not respond immediately to a request for information.
But Chinese tabloid Global Times reported on Friday that the embassy had confirmed with the institution that the names of students mentioned in the Ukrainian report did not exist and the campus had not been bombarded.
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Located in the country’s second-biggest city, the academy specialises in cultural studies and has more than 2,500 Ukrainian and overseas students from across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.