China News Service, Beijing, March 18 (Zhang Su, Xie Yanbing) Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on March 18.

　　A reporter asked: According to reports, the US White House spokesman Psaki said recently that the US is discussing how to support Ukrainian refugees.

What is China's comment?

　　Zhao Lijian: China is deeply concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ukraine and deplores reports of civilian casualties and an increase in the number of refugees.

It is imperative that all parties cease fire and cease fighting as soon as possible, exercise maximum restraint, ensure the safety of civilians and basic humanitarian needs, and prevent a larger-scale humanitarian crisis.

China attaches great importance to the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and has put forward a six-point proposal.

The Red Cross Society of China has provided three batches of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Among them, the third batch of supplies focuses on helping the Ukrainian Red Cross to help displaced children affected by the conflict.

　　We welcome any initiatives and initiatives put forward by the parties to help alleviate and resolve the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

You mentioned just now that the US is discussing how to support Ukrainian refugees. We hope that the US can formulate a plan as soon as possible and put relevant discussions into action.

　　The Ukrainian crisis has produced millions of refugees.

The U.S. has known this for a long time, so why bother?

The US side should also deeply reflect on what is the root cause of the current refugee crisis?

What role does the US itself play in the evolution of the Ukraine crisis?

What are the corresponding responsibilities and obligations?

Recently, many people of insight in the world have been thinking about how the situation in Ukraine has developed to where it is today if it wasn't for the serious imbalance of regional security caused by the five consecutive rounds of NATO's eastward expansion?

Did the countries that insisted on making the decision to expand NATO to the east, despite their opposition, envisioned the difficult situation of refugees today?

Do you think these countries should accept refugees the most?

Leaving aside the 20-year war in Afghanistan that the United States launched, 11 million refugees have been destroyed and displaced. In this conflict, 2.6 million refugees have poured into European countries. Therefore, Europe is the real victim of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The US is still watching the fire from the other side, fooling European allies.

When the Vice President of the United States visited Poland recently, when she was asked whether the United States would accept some Ukrainian refugees, we heard her laugh and did not respond directly.

What the world sees is that, as the initiator and biggest promoter of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the United States is still only acting in a pretentious manner on the refugee issue.

It's ironic, and it's telling, and you should think about it.

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