Chinese President Xi Jinping told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that China would not sell weapons to Russia during a phone conversation between the two men, Zelenskyy said on Thursday, Paralel.Az reports citing Reuters.

Zelenskyy was speaking at a joint press conference with U.S. President Joe Biden at the G7 summit in Italy. He did not specify when the conversation with Xi took place.

"I had a firm conversation with (the) leader of China. He said that he will not sell any weapon to Russia. We’ll see if he’s (a) respectable person he will not, because he gave me (his) word," Zelenskyy said in English.