“I hope to see the day when this corrupt NATO puppet Zelensky is captured, stripped naked ... chained, then whipped and sent to eastern Ukraine, where he will face a real trial for his war crimes,” RIA Novosti quotes a comment to New York Post article by one of the users.

Another called Zelensky a laughing stock, noting that the Ukrainian leader cannot tell China what to do.

"If America can help Ukraine, why can't China help Russia?"

asked a reader with the nickname Oksure.

The head of the department for disarmament of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Fu Tsong, earlier called the attempts of a number of Western countries to exclude Russia from international negotiations incorrect.

Beijing called on the parties to the conflict in Ukraine to an immediate ceasefire and start a peaceful dialogue.